Claim: Drug cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is waging war against ISIS.
FALSE Example: [Collected via Email, December 2015]
Did El Chapo really threaten ISIS for messing with cartel operations?
Origin:On 10 December 2015, a rumor that drug cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman had threatened ISIS was reported on by major news outlets such as the NY Post, Forbes, and Fox News. Despite the story's wide circulation on reputable news web sites, this rumor originated on the entertainment web site Thug Life Videos:
TLV Exclusive: The famed leader of the biggest drugs cartel in the world, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera – aka 'El Chapo' – has sent a chilling warning ISIS: "My men will destroy you."
The message was sent via encrypted email to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, but details were leaked to a Mexican blogger who has close ties with Sinaloa cartel members...
... "You [ISIS] are not soldiers. You are nothing but lowly p*ssies. Your god cannot save you from the true terror that my men will levy at you if you continue to impact my operation."
"My men will destroy you. The world is not yours to dictate. I pity the next son of a wh*re that tries to interfere with the business of the Sinaloa Cartel. I will have their heart and tongue torn from them."
The above-quoted story was published by Thug Life Videos on 30 November 2015, but it wasn't until the story was picked up by CartelBlog.com, a web site that reports on cartel news, that it went viral. Shortly after CartelBlog posted the story on its web site, several major news outlets published headlines such as "El Chapo tells ISIS his men will destroy them" and "Cartel leader Chapo Guzmán threatens war on ISIS after terrorists destroy drug shipment."
But this is not true. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has not waged war against ISIS. The rumor started on a satire web site that frequently publishes fake stories. It was mistakenly picked up as a genuine news item by a web site that specializes in stories about the cartel, and was then regurgitated by several popular publications.
This isn't the first time that Thug Life Videos has fooled the media with a story about El Chapo. In October 2015, the web site helped promulgate the false story that El Chapo had put a bounty on Donald Trump's head.
A disclaimer on the site explains that while Thug Life Video's main focus is on creating and sharing videos and entertainment news, they occasionally publish satire:
Here at Thug Life Videos we create and share with you the very best in Thug Life videos and general entertainment news.
As well as more serious content, we sometimes share the odd satire stories for your entertainment.
Steve Charnock, who works for Thug Life Videos, confirmed that he wrote the now-viral piece. He told us:
"We write funny 'satire' stories occasionally which we assume are taken as jokes, and generally they are...
Maybe I didn't make this El Chapo story funny or weird enough, though. Or I just have an uncanny ability to ape how Mexican drug cartel kingpins talk. Only no one seemed to doubt it when it hit the desks of all the major news outlets. The Telegraph, Express and Mirror in the UK - Washington Post, Fox News, Sun Times, New York Post in the US.
No one checked any details or sources, they just slapped it up and within hours it's the 5th highest trending topic of Twitter, all over Facebook, and the number one story on dozens of major global news sites.
All that and I didn't make a penny extra. Life's not fair."
ISIS released a video in November 2015 listing 60 countries as its enemies; Mexico was the only Latin American country on the list. Its video was met with mockery from social media users in Mexico, but no threats from cartel bosses.
Last updated: 11 December 2015
Originally published: 10 December 2015
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