El Chapo: The Rise and Fall of the World's Most Wanted Man

About this episode

This episode covers the rise and fall of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, detailing his drug empire and prison escapes.

🎙️ El Chapo: The Rise and Fall of the World's Most Wanted Man In this episode: He built the most powerful drug empire in history from a tiny mountain village in Mexico, escaped maximum security prison twice, and ran a billion dollar cartel from behind bars. This is the full story of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — and the young beauty queen who stood by him until the very end. #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #CrimeStory #ElChapo #Cartel #SerialKillers #NetflixDocumentary #TrueStory #IWishYouWereHerePod #UnsolvedMystery #TrueCrimeStoryteller 🎧 Listen to the Podcast Apple Podcasts:I Wish You Were Here on Apple Podcast Spotify:I Wish You Were Here on Spotify All Platforms: https://hoo.be/mshellllly 🤝 This Episode Is Sponsored By COZY EARTH Go to https://cozyearth.com/wish for up to 30% off! 🔗 Link: https://cozyearth.com/wish 🌐 Follow Me TikTok: TikTok Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mshellllly/ YouTube: I Wish You Were Here on YouTube 🖤 Disclaimer This episode discusses real events involving real people. Information is presented based on publicly available sources at the time of recording. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Michelle Cuervo

Topics covered

• drug empire
• true crime
• cartel
• prison escape
• Joaquín Guzmán
• crime story

Keywords

• El Chapo
• drug cartel
• true crime podcast
• crime story
• prison escape
• Joaquín Guzmán
• beauty queen

Sponsors

COZY EARTH

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