Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested
after his scandalous prison break last year, the Mexican president
announced via his Twitter handle.
Translated:
“Mission completed: we’ve got him. I’d like to inform the Mexicans that Joaquin Guzman Loera has been detained,” Enrique Pena Nieto wrote.
El Chapo (aka “Shorty”) is considered to be Mexico’s top drug lord
and head of the Sinaloa cartel. The US Drug Enforcement Administration
has called El Chapo the biggest drug lord of all time. In 2011 he
reportedly surpassed the infamous “cocaine king” Pablo Escobar. He was
wanted by Mexico, Interpol and the US, which had offered a $5 million
reward for any information leading to his capture.
He was first arrested in 1993 and spent almost a decade in a
maximum-security prison near Mexico City before escaping in 2001. After
13 years on the run he was recaptured in 2014.
However, last July a new prison break made the headlines again. He
escaped through a 1.5-kilometer long, 10-meter deep tunnel dug from
within his cell, despite being incarcerated in the country’s
highest-security federal prison.
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