Drug Lord The Legend of Shorty

Synopsis: A documentary that chronicles the hunt for the notorious Mexican drug lord El Chapo.
Genre: Documentary, News
Director(s): Angus MacQueen
Production: Gravitas Ventures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
TV-MA
Year:
2014
90 min
259 Views


It is said that 20 men were sent there

to build the tunnel.

He came from Agua Prieta,

in Sonora in northern Mexico

Here was created a legend

Just south of the border with Arizona,

where all the gringos live

They enjoy the goods

we send there in our carriages

There, south of the border,

where we dig our tunnels

popularly known tunnel

for "Cocaine Alley"

The best architects

were involved in the construction

The man behind the construction

was a certain Chapo Guzmn

Sadly for workers

he paid never charged anyone salary

Sadly for workers

he paid never charged anyone salary

I believe that Chapo Guzmn

is the world's most dangerous criminal.

Joaqun Guzmn Loera,

also known as Chapo Guzmn-

trying to keep away the

most persistent police hunt ever.

Chapo Guzmn has built up

a powerful empire.

So far as his drug reaches,

that far extends his power.

Joaqun Guzmn,

known as El Chapo, or Shorty-

being chased by the police

in Mexico and the US

since he escaped from prison in 2001.

Even so, he has managed to build

the biggest drug empire ever.

With the British filmmaker

Angus MacQueen-

I have filmed the drug trade

for over ten years.

I have witnessed the terrible

violence that had taken over my continent.

We have ifrgasatt

everything we have been told about droghandeln-

so we decided

to do the impossible.

We would find El Chapo Guzmn,

the world's most wanted man.

We started in Chicago, where El Chapos

Sinaloakartell has its headquarters.

He has been appointed

as public enemy number one.

The same epithet Al Capone got

for more than 80 years ago.

This man has most of the

Americans never heard of.

We use the same name

as at Al Capone on the 1930s.

It's the second time

this has been necessary.

So vicious and powerful

is this man.

Just in Chicago has over 90 percent

of marijuana, cocaine, heroinet-

methamphetamine and other synthetic

drugs being sold out on gatorna-

come here from Sinaolakartellen.

El Chapo controls the cartel

as a terrorist group.

His many distributors in Chicago

works as individual cells.

We found a family that imported

drugs from Mexico for several decades.

Just like on the movie

he came in a private aircraft.

Turn right when you can, soon.

It's all about family.

We are still cowboys

who takes care of our own.

In principle, all dedicated to the same man.

Most do it.

How he manages

to build up so much power?

Ask him. I do not know.

He's smart, a smart little bastard.

I do not know how he manages to,

but he does it well.

I take care of the logistics,

I plan and find solutions.

I'll get the keys, handles

supplies... I'll take care of everything.

It'll go simply to receive

drug deliveries every day.

It is not we who set the prices,

they do.

That depends on how much people buy,

it could be several tons.

The prices vary,

but they put down there.

It's like working

for any business.

It's the same thing.

One employee

to perform its task.

It asks no questions,

it takes is a handshake.

You never know who you work for.

He may not even exist,

he might be just a myth.

You have not been able to find him?

Not even the world

ablest officers find him.

If you search on Google

you can find him easily

At the top on the list,

the enemy number one

For singletons, a man of rural family

His mother's name was Consuelo Loera,

and father Emilio

His first wife Alejandrina

gave him three sons - some say five

Then he found three - or was

the five - with Griselda Lpez Prez

His third wife, Miss Sinaloa yourself,

she called Emma Coronel

They recently got

a beautiful pair of twins

at a hospital in Los Angeles

I have to go through this.

Take it easy.

They're everywhere,

but he's sprlst missing

He pays millions

to keep the underworld

They have offered a reward

- but too a penalty

He instills fear and loyalty,

a real businessman since young years

Coke in your nose, the strainer in your arm

He is the people's friend, he eludes law

prosecutor and fans agree,

and no contrast

Chapo Guzmn is a true legend of

the world's junkies at their feet

Now it's clear enough,

you got into everything.

This, too...

I started to unravel in Sinaloakartellen

and had no idea what I was getting into.

The tentacles

extending throughout the world.

It has hubs

in Chicago and close to Montreal, Canada.

Containers shipped

to Hong Kong and then Australia-

and provides the market where

200000 kilos of cocaine.

One kilogram can cost 18000

in Los Angeles.

Once in Australia

profit margin is absolutely huge.

The power structure is changing,

but Chapo Guzmn is left as leader.

Lebanon talks with Belize,

which in turn talks to the cartel.

All ingr the same criminal networks.

This is from a crackdown in Mexico

City then $ 200 million were found.

It woke people up.

$ 200 million?

Yes, enormously.

In an apartment in Mexico City,

the walls, closets...

Unimaginable sums

in US dollars.

Everything was profit at chemicals

to methamphetamine production.

It acts

like any other undertaking helst-

with the president, managers,

Finance Department...

These companies serve tskilliga

million for the Chapo Guzmn behalf.

You do not end up in Forbes Magazine

without being a skilled entrepreneur.

We decided to follow the money

back to Mexico and El Chapo.

We set off against grnsen-

to find the one

who we know have met him.

Is the line secure?

-Yes, It is.

I pick up the driver

at 17 in the morning.

The first time we met El Flaco

was four years ago.

He violates the smugglers golden

rule not to use the goods himself.

In 20 years, he has driven the drug to the US

during the one

they call El senors patronage.

It's El Senor who set the prices.

Some want to set their own prices. They

say that El Senor can drag ate forest.

They think it's their goods.

But what happens to them?

First, they warned.

They are encouraged to take it easy

and keep to El senors prices.

Second time they become of the goods.

The third time, they are killed.

El Flaco work

on the violent bakgatorna-

just some kilometers

from the border with California.

I have witnessed some

of the thousands of murders that take place here-

in the battle for the world's

most lucrative smuggling routes.

An American police officer said he was

waiting to Tijuana tumbles together-

all

El Chapos tunnels under the city.

El Flaco trust us-

and tells the cartel

we're looking for El Chapo.

We become locked in a garage

with a car and a lot of methamphetamine.

A half kilogram of methamphetamine.

It's clean.

There should be treated one more time

to crystallize.

We'll bet it firmly

to hide the smell.

We take a bag to the

precaution.

It is worth about 5500 dollars.

A half-kilo.

Holy sh*t...

$ 5.500. it can feed many.

Now junkies take it.

We're receiving seven packets

with three half-kilo packages.

There you go, this will be the last.

So...

And then lead plate,

which protects against x.

It blocks the gamma ray, too.

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