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BIRTH
Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera was born into a poor family in the rural community of La Tuna,Badiraguato Mexico.sources disagree on the date his birth,with some stating he has his born on 25 December 1954. -
Firts marijuana productions
Guzman, at the age of 15, cultivated his own marijuana plantation -
Murder of a cardinal
Tijuana and sinaloa cartels staged a deadly shooting at the Guadalajara International Airport where one of the seven victims was Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo -
First arrest
Guzmán was captured for the first time in Guatemala, extradited to Mexico and sentenced to 20 years, nine months in prison on charges of drug trafficking, criminal association and bribery. He was jailed at Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, a maximum-security prison -
Transferred to "Puente Grande"
He was transferred to the maximum security prison Federal Center for Social Rehabilitation No. 2 (also known as "Puente Grande") in Jalisco, after being convicted of three crimes: possession of firearms, drug trafficking and the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo -
first escape
A prison guard, opened Guzmán's electronically operated cell door, and Guzmán got into a laundry cart that maintenance worker Javier Camberos rolled through several doors and eventually out the front door. -
Second arrest
At around 6:40 a.m., Mexican authorities arrested Guzmán at a hotel in a beachfront area in Mazatlán, following an operation by the Mexican Navy, with joint intelligence from the DEA and the U.S. Marshals Service. -
Charge
The Mexican government formally charged Guzmán for drug trafficking, a process that slowed down his possible extradition to the U.S -
In his defense...
Guzmán requested another injunction through his lawyer Andrés Granados Flores to prevent his extradition to the U.S. His defense argued that if he were to be extradited and judged in a foreign court, his constitutional rights would be violated as expressed in Articles 1, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 20 of the Constitution of Mexico. -
Second escape
Guzmán escaped from Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, a maximum-security prison, It was discovered he had escaped through a tunnel leading from the shower area to a house construction site 1.5 km (0.93 mi) away in a Santa Juanita neighborhood -
Third arrest
Was captured for the third time in an operation of the Mexican Navy in the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa -
Extradition sought
Guzmán was transferred to a prison near Ciudad Juarez, near the border with Texas. At that point, Mexico expected to extradite Guzmán to the United States by February 2017. -
Extradition
Guzman was extradited to the U.S. to face charges related to running the Sinaloa cartel.
Guzman was housed at the maximum-security wing of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York located in Manhattan, New York while he awaited trial.
