By Jazmine Ulloa
Austin American-Statesman
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – the man labeled the world’s most powerful drug trafficker – is not among the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
Neither is his rival, Heriberto Lazcano, though he is said to run one of the most vicious illicit networks to move tons of cocaine and marijuana into the United States. Nor is Miguel Ángel Treviño, a former Mexican military officer believed to be Lazcano’s second in command.
Some drug war analysts say the absence of such fugitive Mexican drug dons from the federal index is another indication that the struggle seething south of the border is not a national priority in the United States, where most residents are unfamiliar with its key players, even as a vicious battle rages so close to home.
“The problem is almost like what you have with war in Iraq and Afghanistan,” retired Special Agent Peter Hanna said. “The conflict is divorced from the United States. Only people in Mexico see the violence, live with the violence.”
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