SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS, Mexico - He was the barefoot son of a peasant who became one of the world's richest moguls, a billionaire entrepreneur with a third-grade education. He controls a vast drug-distribution empire that spans six continents, but he still carries an AK-47. He is generous and feared, a mass murderer and a folk hero. He is a ghost who has become a legend. In the fifth year of a terrible war in Mexico that has exhausted the military, consumed the presidency of Felipe Calderón and left more than 43,000 dead in drug violence, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, founder of the Sinaloa cartel, reigns supreme. His pursuers compare him to Al Capone or Osama bin Laden. But none of these...
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