If anything, the three-month-long trial left us with the disquieting conclusion that if this man, who was born into dire poverty and equipped with only a third-grade education, could overcome the billions of dollars the government has pumped into the drug war over the last 40 years, then anyone with a basic level of cunning and ruthlessness could.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/el-chapo-another-case-for-ending-the-drug-war/