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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