Latin America & Caribbean
The 1993 raid that failed to nab El Chapo
The San Salvador raid: The DEA had been watching El Chapo, but the day his cocaine was busted the drug lord wasn't there.
In 1993, when Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán was just getting started on his criminal career, he was almost captured by the DEA in an operation in El Salvador.
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In June 1993 six tons of Colombian cocaine was seized in a warehouse on the outskirts of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador.
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Guzmán had visited San Salvador two months before the operation, using a fake identity to inspect one of his new drug warehouses.
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“They wanted to use El Salvador as a base to transhipment base,” according to a former Salvadoran undercover police officer who asked not to be identified.
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