Calling El Chapo "just a pawn" is disingenuous and marginalizes his status in the cartel. If he was "just a pawn," I don't think he would've been helped to escape TWICE. And I can't see the organization jumping in to action to keep his son from getting arrested for someone who was "just a pawn."
True. If he was just a pawn and they use all that effort to remove him from prison knowing it will draw attention, then he automatically became more than a Pawn
It’s ridiculous to call him a pawn, could say everyone in the drug game is a pawn really I suppose if we are looking at it that way. The guy is probably rightly scared of El Chapo though and so doesn’t want to say anything bad about him. I’ve watched a few interviews from him and he never goes into details on anything and doesn’t really provide any insights.
His kids run half of the SC now the other half is run by his bestfriend Mayo. Chapo was always the main guy until he got extradited Ed just wants views
The Sinaloa cartel isn’t run by 1 guy, it’s a bunch of families working together under that name but each family has their own boss, the Zambadas and Guzmans just happen to be the biggest ones, El Mayo runs his part and El Chapo ran his
They said the same thing about Pablo. That it was the Ochoa brothers that really had the power. But he wouldn’t be known as one of the richest men in the world at the time for nothing. Sinaloa has a HUGE hub here in Chicago. That’s how the Flores twins turned on Chapo. The government goes along with what the cartel does. Why do you think our borders aren’t secure and it’s just a revolving door with what drugs come into this country.
@@lukakruzich9500 el mayo the boss of the sinaloa cartel has been selling drugs since the 60s and the 2 places where he was selling drugs in was Los Angeles and Chicago and they still are there
Essentially everyone is a pawn. No one is bigger than the game itself. It’s not like they can just remove any one person and it will shut the whole thing down
He is one of the top dogs Life goes on after his capture They are very structured, and if you think it’s all gonna fall apart, after one person goes to jail ur crazy
No, Ed always gets this wrong, the Sinaloa cartel is made up of families working together under one name, each family has their own boss tho, El Mayo and El Chapo just happen to be the biggest names
@@jbizzle2232 Great example. It’s like in the US you have folk nation. But folk nation is made up of other gangs. GDs (Larry Hoover) BDs (King David) etc.
just because he was the literal head of the organization he definitely wasnt a pawn. I get the guy knows his shit but i think hes a little too wrapped up in the mystique of it all.
The reason why el chapo got broken out of prison in the early 2000s was because the dea made contact with him so el mayo broke him out to make a deal with the dea
El mayo's son isn't in protective custody. He served a five year sentence after a useless cooperation deal. He returned to Mexico and is presumably working with his father again. His father doesn't want to kill him. His son is a genius that totally got over on the U.S. government.
I think they new the deal chapo had to go because he embarrassed the government on a global scale when he disappeared from prison the tunnel etc makes him look like James Bond he had to go
El Chapo Esobar or Walter White At the End of the day the game is the game that we all play, Take out 1 and another will take his place but at the end of the game the King and the Pawns return to the same box
I’m Cuban American and yes Alberto Sicilia Falcon was the name of one of the originators of the Sinaloa cartel. Most of the world has no idea that a Cuban was involved in the start up of the biggest drug cartel
El mayo gave his son the OK 👍 to testify against chapo ... supposedly it took 2 years for his dad to call and told Vicente to tell the DEA what he had to
It’s crazy how he got arrested and none of his guys batted an eye but when his son got captured the culicanaso happened (when his guys shut down the city and had major gunfights)
CDS is a federation with different cells or factions, Chapo was the leader of one which his children Los Chapitos took over when he went to prison. Now you have Chapo’s sons La Chapiza o Los Chapitos fighting for power against their uncle El Guano who is Chapo’s blood brother and against La Mayiza which is Mayo’s people.
Let’s be real, sure, he could be the lightning rod who takes the strikes. But whoever goes down, something gets pinned on them for everybody else. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t somebody and doesn’t it mean it happens to everybody, but it’s a potential possibility and a likely move. At the end of the day, it’s business, one that’s going to be kept alive.
He is a pawn he knows this everyone knows that is involved their place just say they make them big they make them known and you can get all the fame but they're still the Fall Guy because the organization still goes on without a hitch
Just listening to him if this interview was a few days ago this guy definitely just knows half of the scoop "a pawn" no 2nd in command and very in charge of everything being transported through him and his compadre MZ needs to listen to his tape recording and transcripts if he's doing interviews.. jmop
Ed doesn’t know what he’s talking about, El Chapo was a leader but in his faction just like El Mayo is a leader in his, they don’t boss each other around they work together
EL Chapo was a major player, but when it comes to drugs, no one is larger than the USA. The reason they invaded Panama and got Noriega, the reason they killed Pablo, and if you'll think Afghanistan was just about oil think again. USA is the largest consumer of drugs anywhere in the world. you'll think they're going to let drugs come into the country without them getting there percentage? Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
If anyone gets a chance listen to the spotty podcast about the twins that worked with Sinaloa cartel and flipped on them. They were the cartels drug distributors and basically ranked number 2 in the entire cartel. They talk about el chapo not as a pawn but as one of 3 people who ran the cartel with total and all control. ED is retired as he mentioned years ago in joe Rogans podcast he’s great but at this point he’s just repeating old talking points and adding new things to stay relevant
He should give credit to the person that expose all this Anabel hernandez on her book "El traidor" he basically quotes everything she says if you ever watcher her interviews he sounds like a recording of her talking
It was actually a cuban who was raised in miami!! And was dealing with Tejanos from texas and florida but then the cuban met El mayos sister and married her and thats how the sinaloa cartel started.
Everyone that actually knows anything about this game is that there is a lot of major players. Some more idolized than other and many that don’t want to be known. He was no small fry I tell you that. 2 escapes, when they arrested his sons they turned the town into a blood bath and forced the military into basically releasing the son. Small fries don’t make trained military and police groups stand down. Mayo is always been known as a Boss. Almost all cartels work as federations they can’t survive just based of the numbers they have locally. CNGJ has a broad control in Mexico allying with other groups under the same 4 Letter Umbrella. Same goes for Sinaloa, Los Zetas and etc. You don’t push product if you don’t push boundaries and territory’s.
I think anyone that’s out of the shadows is an end game move… these guys business is too valuable n sure seems to me that until there’s a real strike all the way to the farm, lab n ports that leave a pile of dead bodies needle doesn’t move. Which I think is inevitable…
He’s the only guy who has any kind of first off control second of any kind of morals when it comes to his behaviour not letting his massacre people not selling heroin in Mexico etc but his not going to be around forever in opinion any way my friend
@@Matt_Wilson01 I don’t believe that. Chapo literally founded C.D.S with El Mayo. El Mayo and El Chapo both ran the cartel like the Arellano twins. In the world of Drug the best thing that every drug lord wants is fame and power to think people wouldn’t know who the real boss is, is crazy. El chapo is the boss and el Mayo is right up there, but el mayo does not get bossed by el chapo because they both founded it, just that El chapo makes most plays. There like the Arellano twins
bro he was the main guy. As a large organization if you can't survive the head guy getting caught\dying you shouldn't be that big. All these cartels have back up plans for the head guy. You can't just cut the head of the snake like people may think.
You must not value your life alot of people respect that men cause he was a boss he help alot of his communities when the government wouldn’t so he just not a pawn
@@blakejones4222 what....he was Mr.untouchable before even the Lord of lords started the first Mexican cartel The Guadalajara Cartel if he didn't save a certain someone from dieing the Columbians would still have Omnipotent Power today
@@blakejones4222 he supposedly died under suspicious circumstances and the body was gone. I’ve read so many stories I start to get them mixed up. I think it’s the same Azul they had in the Narcos show but I doubt he died as they betrayed it
