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He was a barefoot boy from a forgotten mountain village who dropped out of school in the third grade and went on to build the most powerful drug empire the world has ever known  tunneling through prison walls, bribing presidents, and flooding entire nations with narcotics while the most sophisticated law enforcement agencies on earth spent decades unable to touch him. The story of El Chapo is not merely the story of one man's crimes; it is the story of poverty weaponized by genius, of institutions rotted from the inside by corruption, and of an empire so deeply embedded in the global economy that locking its architect in a concrete cell in Colorado barely slowed it down.

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