EL CHAPO DEATH RUMOURS

Did Public Enemy Number 1 eat hot lead in jungle shootout?

Just after being named as Public Enemy Number One by the city of Chicago, Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was reported to have been gunned down in a shoot-out with police in Guatamala. It sounded all too likely. Two days later, however, and doubts started to emerge. Was it really Guzman who ate hot lead? Was Public Enemy Number 1 still at large and on the lam?

Here is the story as it unfolded. Initial reports said El Chapo was el meurto

The Daily Mail reports the doubts. The Inquisitr pitches in here and the Washington Post here

All in all the whole thing made great copy and kept the psychotic drug kingpin in the news

"EL CHAPO" ES NUMERO UNO

JOAQUIN "EL CHAPO" GUZMAN IS CHICAGO'S PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER 1

Vicious drug kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera lives somewhere in the mountains of western Mexico surrounded by a private army funded by a fortune estimated at over a billion dollars. In Mexico he is already a mythic figure. Now he has rocketed to the top of the criminal elite after being named as Chicago's Public Enemy Number 1, a title that has remained empty since Al Capone in 1930. The decision of the Chicago Crime Commission to make El Chapo numero uno has ensured that his is a trending name on the internet. In reality Guzman has rarely been far from the news since his escape from Federal Prison ten years ago. Since then he has become one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers, an elusive figure based in the remote Sinaloa mountains where he has a robin hood reputation for giving aid to the peasant farmers. Last year Forbes Magazine named him as one of the world's most powerful people. An anti-hero who is fast becoming an icon in popular culture. Only last year rapper Gucci Manne paid tribute to El Chapo. 

 El Chapo remains elusive however. Even photographs believed to be of him are now questioned.

Don't call him Chapo to his face though. It means 'dwarf'. You know what they say "little man big temper". Lets see how long it is before the DEA take him out in a hail of bullets. They have been trying for long enough, and hey, he's undoubtedly working for them anyway. We all know who the real kingpins are. Read more here: Wikipedia  Huffington Post

Some video reportage about Guzman

Here is a BBC documentary about the Mexico drug wars. Crazy place!