“Mission accomplished: we have him. I want to inform Mexicans that Joaquin Guzman Loera has been arrested.”

That was the message on social media with which the then-president of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced the third and final capture of El Chapo Guzman, which took place on January 8, 2016. Six months earlier, on July 11, 2015, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel had escaped from the maximum-security prison "El Altiplano" through a tunnel, from his cell's bathroom to a nearby property. However, his freedom was short-lived, as an operation called "Black Swan," implemented by the Mexican Navy's Special Forces, led to his capture in the city of Los Mochis. This was the last place El Chapo saw as a free man. According to Mexican authorities, the operation began in October 2015, when Joaquin Guzman was located at a ranch in Pueblo Nuevo, Durango. Authorities attempted to capture him, but he evaded capture by fleeing through a ravine. Two women and a girl escaped from El Chapo's escape, so the authorities, who located him from a helicopter, decided not to fire on him. I have tried to escape once again. But in early 2016, the criminal leader was located at a residence in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, where members of the Navy mounted an operation for his arrest, which was launched in the early morning of January 8. In the attempted capture, five criminals guarding the drug trafficker were killed and one member of the federal forces was wounded, in addition to six others being arrested. El Chapo escaped through the storm drain system along with his head of security, Ivan Gastelum, alias "El Cholo." Both emerged into the city through a sewer and stole a car to escape, which was located by the authorities on the Los Mochis-Navojoa highway, where Guzman was finally arrested.

This time, the tunnels he designed to escape from prison and smuggle drugs into the United States were not enough and did not yield the expected results.

After his capture, extradition proceedings to the United States began, culminating on January 20, 2017. The trial began in November 2018 and ended in February 2019.

Finally, in July 2019, El Chapo was sentenced to life imprisonment by a jury in New York and transferred to the ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado, United States.