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U.S. OFFICIALS/HANDOUT/REUTERS
Islip, New York— He was the world’s most notorious narco—an escape artist who twice broke out of prison in Mexico. Now he is back behind bars—only this time in the United States. On January 19, Mexican authorities extradited Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán to New York, where he is charged with a variety of crimes related to his reign as head of the Sinaloa cartel. Over the past decade, Chapo, which means Shorty in Spanish, became a symbol of the war on drugs’ failure—both in Mexico and the U.S.