MisSean Accomplished

MisSean Accomplished

By: Erreh Svaia

“I think life's an irrational obsession.”

Sean Penn

Accused for the murder of more than 2000 people, amazingly too much fewer than the "death toll" falsely imposed on ex-President Felipe Calderón during his "war against drugs", possibly over passed easily by current President Enrique Peña Nieto who promised to solve insecurity in months, Joaquín Guzmán aka as El Chapo Guzmán or Shorty, has been on the most wanted criminals in the world list for more than 15 years second only to public enemy number one, Osama Bin Laden; Guzmán, born in Badiraguato, Culiacán, started his criminal career at 15, as a Marijuana cultivator, getting involved in the infamous Cartel of Guadalajara, and then departing from it in order to found the Cartel of Sinaloa; Getting amazing considerations even from Forbes magazine as one of the most rich and powerful people in the world.

The big paradox with El Chapo, is that after his capture last Friday, El Chapo has been already conducted to the two highest security penitentiaries in México, and he has escaped from both of them, the first time, at the beginning of Vicente Fox government, by just walking thru the principal gate, and the second time, last year, thru a complex high tech equipped tunnel built under the penitentiary by engineers trained in Germany.

It might be a matter of time for El Chapo to get extradited to the USA, as I bet the Mexican government will try to avoid a new jailbreak from Guzmán, finally sealing his fate, but recognizing at the same time Mexican authorities' ineptitude to deal with such a character, the biggest drug dealer since the days of Pablo Escobar.

Last Friday, the announcement of the event was led by president Enrique Peña Nieto's declaration on social networks as "mission accomplished", in an almost triumphant way, receiving immediate criticism for giving a triumphant sense, to what was really one of the most embarrassing chapters in his period as president, as it shouldn't have happened in the first time, it took authorities so much time on the recapture, no high ranks authorities were implicated on the jailbreak, and there was even interviews carried by actor Sean Penn, who was able to localize Guzmán before the Mexican investigators, "misSean accomplished" for Penn.

The recapture comes in the middle of a real bad time for Peña Nieto's popularity with a Peso heavily devaluates against the Dollar, with the oil prices at its all-time low and even recriminations by the New York Times for Peña Nieto's government lack of accountability, the stage was perfect for such a public stunt, the problem is that Peña Nieto's government is also suffering a trust crisis that makes the capture look more like a smoke screen in order to cover Peña Nieto's failure.

The capture of El Chapo may pass as just another embarrassing chapter in México's politics and war on insecurity, as no El Chapo's billionaire accounts have been assured or denounced, there is no transparency to El Chapo's assets confiscated, his already known participations in several major business in the countries are not being intervened, and no major authorities connected to El Chapo jailbreak or operations have been captured already.