El Chapo’s drug tunnels, explained
How El Chapo dug his way to the top of the drug trade.
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Throughout his career as a drug trafficker, tunnels have been the common theme in El Chapo’s story. When he gained control of a major drug trafficking corridor in the late 1980s, Joaquin Guzman Loera — then known as “el Rapido”— was the first to create super tunnels for transporting drugs across the border.
At the time, a crackdown by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) meant Colombian cocaine was in decline and the Mexican narcotrafficker saw an opportunity. By using tunnels to facilitate fast transport, El Chapo leveraged his role as a trafficker to claim new responsibilities as a cultivator and distributor of drugs.
Over the next twenty years, he learned how to use his drug tunnels in ways nobody had ever imagined and his success became dependent on his subterranean inclinations. Although his masterful use of tunnels led him to a maximum security jail cell at Altiplano prison, it would be tunnels that also led him back out again.
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@prophetpower7
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
✝️💯
@LuisRamirez-l2c4z
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
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@YolondaDennis
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
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@besocorleone-f2s
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
🤘👍🇦🇱
@hastensavoir7782
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
Why don’t they just imprison him in some remote Island?
@hamzaberbouch263
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
Genuis El chapo
@AliciaAndersson-l9p
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
This video clearly shows that building border walls or increasing enforcement isn't an effective solution unless the root causes—drug demand and systemic corruption—are addressed.
@kangenathan9703
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
Bro a real life bat man villain 😂
@RobertArmstrong-g8l
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
I'm a good guy 👦
@FenriZz
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
This explains the corruption in Mexico pretty well
@JS-qw4ln
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
one decent earthquake and these tunnels are gone. Imaging being a transporter in one of the tunnels when that happens
@54321-p
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
Was he dieting before that slip into the shower tunnel?
@DedeSudharmoko
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
Umm did you guys know he is making it right now under his cell? 😂
@ElmehdiMessaoudi-g9j
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
😔
@cielitolindo333
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
Omg he’s from where my family is from and they’ve been saying that it’s horrible there. My grandma and my mom has always told me that everyone in Sinaloa probably has a history with drugs (not my family) either using them or selling them
@FarazFactFiles
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
No matter what people say, El Chapo's story is a chilling reminder of how far power and ambition can take someone for better or worse. This video is intense ..
@Riperrsr
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
I was born in 2025😂
@FrankieFrenchy
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
KIM ISNT RESUPPLYING ANYONE, KIM FAILED BECAUSE OF YOUR STAFF AT THE ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL
@ImBobtheHampter
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
Secret Vietnamese veteran in disguise. (Instant flashback)
@SniperSpotter-i6c
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
Tunnels
@DominiqueDiBona-x4e
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
Much is Gracias Senor Guzman. You have a friend in the area by the name of Mathew. If you need anything…we will leave him in charge because we have work to do.
@saanvica6491
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
"Are you El- Chapo, God of tunnels?"
@Majenbooce
September 20, 2025 at 7:23 am
People sneaking in the us rn through em
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