Mexican authorities lambaste Forbes for listing drug trafficker among the super-rich
News Thursday that Forbes magazine included one of Mexico's most-wanted drug traffickers Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on its rich list has prompted outrage from Mexican officials.
"I will never accept that a criminal could or would be recognized, even by a magazine like Forbes," said Atty. Gen. Eduardo Medina Mora, quoted in The News.
"In my country, [Guzman] is associated with a wave of violence in recent years ... and the death of many innocent people who have got caught in the crossfire of hit men."
Medina Mora said Forbes' inclusion of Guzman was "baseless" and lacking in "methodological rigor."
The News reports that other lawmakers in Congress echoed those sentiments Thursday.
Guzman was captured in Guatemala in 1993 and transferred to a maximum-security prison in Mexico, but he got tired of the life. Eight years after his incarceration, he paid guards to smuggle him out of the prison in a laundry truck. Read Tracy Wilkinson's report on sightings of Guzman in Mexico here.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City.
Credit: Forbes.com
People want to blame Mexico for the problems it is facing fighting trafficking, when the US is funding and arming the dealers. Hypocrisy prevails.
Posted by: MLK123 | March 16, 2009 at 09:22 AM
bwahahaha! Capitalism is based on supply and demand. Just goes to show that there is a huge demand for his product. Viva capitalist!
Posted by: scared indio | March 15, 2009 at 10:03 PM
I also thought this magazine was serious but I think they fall into a big mistake this time, by listing this man along with respected business men and women. Well may be they wanted to warn the world about this criminal, in the sense of helping or telling us "we must stop this criminal", who knows.
Posted by: Gabriel | March 15, 2009 at 03:01 PM
Thank God for prohibition, hey Joaquin!? Let's just keep doing what we've been doing for 70+ years.
Posted by: buzzardwhiskey | March 14, 2009 at 04:09 PM
I am amazed that a magazine like Forbes can include one of the bigest criminal minds in Mexico and US history. Giving him credit for his criminal career, what a disapointment!
Posted by: victor loza | March 14, 2009 at 03:49 PM
This is not a news story. Mexico is predictably *offended* by the truth.
Posted by: Samantha | March 14, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Forbes should be ashamed of themselves, this guy is one of the worst, besides how do they have any idea of his net worth anyway.Pretty outrageous
Posted by: bob mclaughlin | March 13, 2009 at 11:51 PM
haha i find it funny. the magazine just shows what breaking the law gets you..lots of money.. but it doesn't show the horrific things and dangers that go with drug dealing.
Posted by: josie | March 13, 2009 at 05:47 PM
I thought Forbes was more inteligent and the best magazine with brains but I was wrong LOLMFA of forbes
Posted by: Jaune Zeuzáved | March 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM