| (Reuters) - Mexico's most wanted man, drug kingpin Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, has been captured, President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Saturday, announcing a major victory for the government in a long, brutal drugs war.
Guzman, known as "El Chapo" (Shorty) in Spanish, runs Mexico's infamous Sinaloa Cartel and over the past decade emerged as one of the world's most powerful organized crime bosses. His cartel has smuggled billions of dollars worth of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines into the United States, and fought brutal wars with other Mexican gangs over turf and drug-trafficking routes. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the fighting. |  |