Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera

Born in La Tuna, Sinaloa, Guzmán rose from poverty in the Sierra Madre to become the world’s most notorious drug lord. A veteran of the Guadalajara Cartel, he co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel after the 1989 fragmentation. He was listed among the world’s richest by Forbes.

Arrested in 1993, he escaped from Puente Grande prison in 2001, was recaptured in February 2014, escaped again in July 2015 through a mile-long tunnel from the Altiplano supermax prison, and was recaptured in January 2016 in Los Mochis. Extradited to the US in January 2017, he was convicted on all 10 counts in February 2019 and sentenced to life plus 30 years at ADX Florence.