A Knack for Business: Mexico Launches Drug Tours After El Chapo's Arrest Sputnik
go to original January 29, 2016

El Chapo rules in Mexico. At least in Tepito Market in Mexico City, where "God Save El Chapo" caps sell like hotcakes and Joaquin Guzman's image is a lucrative business. (EFE International)

After drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was captured and placed into custody again residents of the Mexican state of Sinaloa came up with an idea on how to increase tourism revenues.

They have started organizing tours of key places of Guzman’s biography, El Universal reported.

Culiacan and Mazatlan are the key destinations of the coming drug tours. According to Argentine newspaper Infobae, amid the recent development around El Chapo the number of tourists visiting the Miramar condominiums where he was captured in 2014 has grown by 15 percent.

Tours are mainly organized by local taxi drivers, for an average price of $20. Among other popular destinations are the statue of Jesus Malverde, the protector of drug traffickers, and the Jardines de Humaya graveyard. The last is known for its sumptuous mausoleums, with bejeweled headstones, an air conditioning system and a phone line.

Some years ago, similar tours were organized in Colombia and Argentina, as a result of important events around the drug trafficking business and growing interest in such persons as Pablo Escobar.

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