Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman can he be stopped? One of Mexico's most wanted criminals, Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison in 2001.

Drug money and gang warfare make a deadly mix in this drug operation that comes from the top down. It appears that high numbers of troops to put a stop to the violence don't seem to be making much of an impact. Mexico's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, is fighting local drug baron Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, boss of the Juarez cartel, for control of Ciudad Juarez and its lucrative smuggling corridor into the United States.Who is Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman and can he be stopped? One of Mexico's most wanted criminals, Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison in 2001. He heads an alliance of drug traffickers based in Sinaloa, Mexico. The Sinaloa Cartel is in a drug war with the Gulf Cartel organization of Matamoros, Mexico. On April 26, 2008, Guzman's men were involved in a gun battle with rival members of the Arellano Felix cartel that left 17 Arellano Felix gang members dead in Tijuana.Guzman is constantly moving between safe houses, offering a reported $2-million to those that can safely provide him with shelter. He changes cell phones everyday, and has even altered his appearance with plastic surgery. Mexican authorities say Guzman imports ephedrine into China, which is used to make methamphetamine. In 2004, the U.S. DEA announced a $5-million reward for information leading to his arrest and prosecution. A year later, the DEA captured his brother, son, two nephews and a niece. However, Guzman eluded them. He travels with bodyguards, and there have been numerous sightings of him throughout Mexico. violence in Mexico's drug war is getting nasty. About 460 people have been killed in the border city of Ciudad Juarez this year, the greatest concentration of drug killings in the country. Today, hooded gunmen dressed in black burst into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in northern Mexico, dragged patients out of a prayer session and shot them dead in an attack that killed eight people. In June, the high-profile police administrative director was shot 10 times as she was parking her car outside her house. A lone gunman in Mexico City burst in on a regional police chief who headed operations against trafficking and contraband as he was having lunch at a restaurant on a busy street and shot him dead, along with a bodyguard.Some telling numbers:More than 560 police have been slain since Felipe Calderon, the Mexican president, took office in December, 2006, and launched a military crackdown on drug cartels, deploying about 25,000 troops and federal police across the country.