JOAQUIN "EL CHAPO" GUZMAN. DRUG LORD CAPTURED.

"Mission Accomplished," Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced. "We have him."

Notorious drug kingpin escaped twice from Mexican prisons, most recently in July.

He was born in Badiraguato in Sinaloa state, Guzman started his career in the drug trade working for Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, according to Time magazine in 2009.He started his own cartel in 1980, expanding it into other states and even poaching some of his mentor's territory. That creation -- the Sinaloa cartel -- soon became Mexico's most powerful and richest, a multibillion empire that supplied much of the marijuana, cocaine and heroin sold on American streets. It was also one of the most violent. U.S. indictments claim the organization used assassins and hit squads to show its muscle. The rivalry with other drug cartels has spurred an ongoing drug war that's left thousands of Mexicans dead.