Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Mexico has begun the process of extraditing Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the U.S. The famed drug lord was captured again last Friday after a dramatic shootout in Guzman's home state of Sinaloa, Mexico. He had escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico last year.
Rising from poverty to build a billion-dollar drug empire, Guzman's story sounds like something right out of a Hollywood movie – and, it turns out, the fugitive was hoping someone would turn it into a big budget bio-pic.
For more, we're joined by Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, professor of Chicano Studies at UCLA and the director of the North American Integration and Development Center.
Correction: During this discussion, a guest referred to Pablo Escobar as the head of the Cali Cartel in Colombia. Escobar was, in fact, head of the Medellín Cartel.