Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, is one of the most notorious and infamous drug lords in history. Comparable at his heigh to Pablo Escobar, through his control of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, Guzman oversaw an empire of marijuana, cocaine, meth, and heroin trade that earned him a billion-dollar net worth at his peak—along with the blood, of 34,000 deaths he was personally responsible for. Naturally, this also earned him the fierce pursuit of Mexican and American authorities alike—pursuit he famously and elaborately eluded for years, staging Houdini like escapes from maximum security prisons thanks to his tenacity, creativity, and the many law enforcement officials in his pockets.