A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
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- Seasons
- 3
- Episodes aired
- 32
- Latest aired
- S03E13
- Total runtime
- 23h 15min
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 April 2017 – May 2017 7 episodes
- Season 2 September 2017 – December 2017 12 episodes
- Season 3 July 2018 13 episodes
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S03E01 Episode 1
July 9 · 41min find the promo
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El Chapo and his men find the perfect place to build the world's largest drug lab. Don Sol gives Franco money and demands that he stay away from him, but he rejects it. DEA analysis shows that the Sinaloa cartel has rapidly expanded operations in the entire world.
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S03E02 Episode 2
July 10 · 40min find the promo
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Don Sol agrees to marry Berta to fulfill his political goals. Men of El Chapo confess to the US police that he was about to put a bomb in the embassy. Mayel is arrested, Joaquin stops the Malaysia operations in exchange for his release.
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S03E03 Episode 3
July 11 · 42min find the promo
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El Chapo sends Elba to live in another house so no one will hurt her. Don Sol and El Chapo make an agreement to make the police believe that he is trying to catch him and that both can fulfill their plans. A journalist of El Popular investigates allegations that Don Sol is protecting El Chapo.
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S03E04 Episode 4
July 12 · 39min find the promo
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Isidoro leaves a message for El Chapo demanding him to defend his place, since he is determined to be his worst enemy. Elba tells El Chapo that she is expecting twins.
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S03E05 Episode 5
July 13 · 40min find the promo
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El Chapo asks his men to do social work on behalf of Esteban Prieto so that people vote for him. Esteban wins the elections and Don Sol is appointed Secretary of Governance.
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S03E06 Episode 6
July 16 · 41min find the promo
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El Chapo and his men steal Isidoro's merchandise and destroy his laboratory. The army tries to catch El Chapo, but he manages to escape and Don Sol gets upset because he knows that it will be more complicated now to arrest him.
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S03E07 Episode 7
July 17 · 43min find the promo
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El Chapo is arrested by the army and Don Sol informs Esteban that the world will find out that they caught the most important drug trafficker in the world. Don Sol meets Franco and his wife discovers him.
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S03E08 Episode 8
July 18 · 40min find the promo
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El Chapo begins to get contacts in jail to avoid being extradited and escape. Esteban asks his wife to publicly clarify the problem he has with one of his properties and Don Sol is enraged when he realizes it.
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S03E09 Episode 9
July 19 · 40min find the promo
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Damaso and Quino fight to take over the organization of El Chapo. El Chapo learns about the problems between Damaso and Quino and demands that they respect each other, but he knows that he must rush to escape from prison or they could ruin the organization.
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S03E10 Episode 10
July 20 · 43min find the promo
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The men of El Chapo begin to dig the tunnel so he can escape. El Chapo manages to escape with the help of his men and the contacts of Don Sol.
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S03E11 Episode 11
July 23 · 44min find the promo
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El Chapo makes clear the distribution of his power if he could not take over the organization. Franco tells Don Sol that he will go to work in another state because he is tired of having to hide so nobody knows about their relationship.
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S03E12 Episode 12
July 24 · 40min find the promo
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Don Sol tells El Chapo that they must get a man to pose as him so that he can remain free. El Chapo asks an actress to make a film about him so that people always remember him.
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S03E13 Episode 13
July 25 · 46min find the promo
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Esteban demands from Don Sol that he resign, he refuses and threatens to confess that Chapo paid for his campaign and that he helped him escape from prison. Don Sol suspects that El Chapo will hide with Marcelo and sends the army to look for him. While Gortari wants to appoint his daughter as presidential candidate but eventually Don Sol earns his trust and is himself appointed.