Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán

In this article, the first or paternal family name is Guzmán and the second or maternal family name is Loera.

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
Booking photo from January 2017
Born	Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (1957-04-04) 4 April 1957 La Tuna, Badiraguato Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico
Other names	El Chapo (Shorty) El Rápido (Speedy)
Occupation	Leader of Sinaloa Cartel
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Predecessor	Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
Successor	Ismael Zambada García
Criminal status	Incarcerated
Spouses	At least 4 Alejandrina María Salazar Hernández ​ ​ (m. 1977)​ Estela Peña (m. date unknown) Griselda López Pérez (m. mid-1980s) Emma Coronel Aispuro ​ ​ (m. 2007)​
Children	At least 15 Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz (b. 1976) Alejandrina Gisselle Guzmán Salazar (b. 1981) Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, alias "El Chapito" (b. 1983) Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, alias "Alfredillo" (b. 1986) César Guzmán Salazar Édgar Guzmán López (†) (b. 1984, d. 2008) Joaquín Guzmán López, alias "El Güero" (b. 1986) Ovidio Guzmán López, alias "El Ratón" (b. 1990) Griselda Guadalupe Guzmán López María Joaquina Guzmán Coronel (b. 2011) Emali Guadalupe Guzmán Coronel (b. 2011) Kim Guzmán Dolci Laisha Guzmán Victor Arael Hernández López Rubencito
Parents	Emilio Guzmán Bustillos María Consuelo Loera Pérez
Conviction(s)	Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise (21 U.S.C. § 848) Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, and marijuana Conspiracy to import cocaine Conspiracy to distribute cocaine Distribution of cocaine (4 counts) Using a firearm in furtherance of drug crimes (18 U.S.C. § 924) Conspiracy to commit money laundering (18 U.S.C. § 1956)
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole plus 30 years, must forfeit assets worth more than $12.6 billion.
Reward amount	Mexico: US$3.8 million United States: US$5 million
Capture status	1st capture: 9 June 1993 2nd capture: 22 February 2014 3rd capture: 8 January 2016
Wanted by	Attorney General of Mexico, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and numerous sub-national entities.
Escaped	1st escape: 19 January 2001 2nd escape: 11 July 2015
Imprisoned at	ADX Florence near Florence, Colorado, United States
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Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (es; born 4 April 1957), commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán was considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world until he was extradited to the United States and sentenced to life in prison.

Guzmán began working with Héctor Luis Palma Salazar by the late 1970s, one of the nation's rising drug lords. He helped Salazar map routes to move drugs through Sinaloa and into the United States. He later supervised logistics for Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, one of the nation's leading kingpins in the mid 1980s, but Guzmán founded his own cartel in 1988 after Félix's arrest.

Guzmán was first captured in 1993 in Guatemala and then was extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking. He bribed multiple prison guards and escaped from a federal maximum-security prison in 2001. He was arrested again in Mexico in 2014.

He escaped a second time in 2015, through a tunnel dug by associates into his jail cell. Mexican authorities recaptured him following a shoot-out in January 2016, and extradited him to the U.S. a year later. In 2019, he was found guilty of a number of criminal charges related to his leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel, was sentenced to life imprisonment, and incarcerated in ADX Florence, Colorado, United States.