Monday 13 July 2015

Mexico's Most Wanted Drug-Lord Escapes from Mexicos' Most Secured Prison!

He was known as the Robin Hood of modern day drug trade, but after Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman stepped into a prison shower he slipped into a tunnel to escape from a maximum-security prison (Altiplano Federal Prison) - just after authorities promised he would never escape from them again.He had escaped in 2001 from a high security prison before he was arrested later in 2014 at a beach resort.
Authorities said they later discovered a lighted and ventilated tunnel nearly a mile long that stretched from the prison to a half-built house, where investigators were searching for signs of Guzman's whereabouts Sunday.
Now a massive manhunt is underway to find Guzman, According to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto: "This represents, without a doubt, an affront to the Mexican state, but also I am confident that the institutions of the Mexican state, particularly those in charge of public safety, are at the level, with the strength and determination, to recapture this criminal."

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