In this July 20, 2015 photo, vegetation surrounds the town of Badiraguato, Mexico, the hometown of drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman. (AP/Fernando Brito)

BADIRAGUATO, Mexico — People living in the hometown of drug lord Joaquin « El Chapo » Guzman have heard stories of his benevolence: gifts of medicine for the poor, deliveries of drinking water to storm-stricken towns. But finding anyone who’s actually received or even seen such a gift is another matter.

In Badiraguato, the small mountain town that is part of Guzman’s rags-to-crime riches mythology, none of the two dozen people interviewed by The Associated Press could point out evidence of his legendary largesse.

« I don’t see a single building producing jobs, a single piece of public works, a soccer field, a sewer, a school, water systems, a clinic or hospital, not a single one that you can say was built by drug traffickers or their money, » Mayor…