Narco El Chapo Guzman Had More Airplanes Than the Biggest Airline in Mexico Christopher Woody - Business Insider | |
go to original May 4, 2016 |
In the last four years since Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took office, Mexican authorities have detected 894 clandestine airstrips on the Mexican border. (Yucatan Times)
Before he was recaptured in January, Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán ran the largest airborne operation in Mexico.
Between 2006 and 2015, Mexican authorities seized 599 aircraft — 586 planes and 13 helicopters — that the cartel used to ship drugs throughout Mexico and Latin America, according to information from the Mexican defense ministry (Sedena) obtained by Mexican newspaper El Universal.
The largest legitimate airline in the country, Aeroméxico, has 127 planes.
If Guzmán’s cartel were a legal business, El Universal notes, it would likely be one of the most successful in the country, based on its 4,771 clandestine landing strips — between 550 yards and 1,100 yards in length — dotting Mexico’s northern states.
...In the first three years of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's term (2012 to 2015) the military seized 55 planes and shut down 894 landing strips.
Most of the aircraft were captured in Culiacan, Navolato, and Ahome — municipalities in Sinaloa state, where Guzmán grew up and has twice been captured.
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Related: Revealed: Why ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s Cartel Is Protected In Sinaloa (Inquisitr)
Related: Why Marine Corps Who Arrested El Chapo Don't Want to Make Details Public (Latin Times)
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