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Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman is pictured on July 10, 1993, at La Palma prison in Almoloya of Juarez, Mexico, after being apprehended by authorities. He escaped and remains a fugitive in a Chicago drug-trafficking case. | Getty Images
This is a photo of a marijuana plot discovered in the North Woods of Wisconsin. Authorities eradicated the pot last year. | Sun-Times Media Photo
A photo taken inside the train car shows packages of marijuana. | Sun-Times Media Photo
A train car full of marijuana shipped to Chicago Heights by a Mexican drug cartel was stopped and the marijuana seized during a raid by the DEA in 2010. | Sun-Times Media Photo
Chicago’s new Scarface is a shadowy Mexican drug kingpin nicknamed Chapo — “Shorty” in Spanish. His cash crop is marijuana, which his cartel sells by the ton and protects with horrific violence. If you thought Chicago’s Italian mob was the worst of the worst in …