Early on Sept. 5,2010, Ismael Bojorquez, editor of the news-weekly Riodoce, in the Mexican city of Culiacan, learned that a man in his 20s had been found dead of bullet wounds in a white Lamborghini. Murders of young men are common in Guliacan, the capital of the state of Sinaloa and the seat of power of the cartel of the same name, but this one was different. The victim, Bojorquez heard, was the son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa cartel and the most powerful drug kingpin in Mexico. Two and a half years earlier, when another of El Chapo's sons was gunned down by the rival Beltran Leyva cartel, it ignited a bloody war-387 people were killed in Culiacan in three months. In a way, El Chapo (Spanish for "Shorty"; Guzman is 5'6") and his empire are the main subjects of Riodoce, one of the only periodicals in Mexico that seriously investigates drug violence.
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