Tow #14 An Uncertain New Chapter in El Chapo's home state (Current Event)

On January 8th, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a drug lord, was finally captured in Mexico by military forces. The article, An Uncertain New Chapter in Sinaloa, El Chapo’s Home State, is written by Paulina Villegas and Alberto Arce, and was published in the New York Times. It has two different views; one is how the government considered Joaquin Guzman Loera’s organization as a network of criminals who flout the law and corrupt its institutions, and the other view from locals who believed that Loera’s organization actually kept order. This order often more efficiently than the government, and is even more adept at helping deliver basic services. This article first opens up by presenting the locals perspective on the situation and how it will affect the community. To the military forces surprise, the locals described Loera as good, intelligent, and a respectable man. Many people on the news considered Loera as a criminal, not even close to how the locals felt towards him. Locals all said, “We were perfectly comfortable when El Chapo was here..now we are worried someone else is going to come here and try to fill his spot.” With the locals view now presented, we have to wonder, how do the military, government, and the maximum security prison feel about this topic? The military, now having successfully captured and imprisoned Loera, couldn’t be any happy. They are seen often, ‘patting each other on the back’..that was until they were questioned about the death of five of their own when there was no physical evidence of shooting from Loera’s men. The government on the other hand is concerned with this action since Loera’s organization, besides the illegal narcotics, were actually the one preventing the crimes and allowing order to be present in Sinaloa. Since Loera was able to escape the maximum security prison, the guards and whole facility has their heads down as they had let Loera escape, again. Due to the quotes, statistics, and sources provided by the authors, I was convinced that capturing the of drug lord, Loera, was actually an unnecessary action.