MEXICO

Mexico recaptures fugitive drug kingpin El Chapo Sinaloa cartel boss, who had escaped from maximum-security prison six months ago,
caught after shootout in home state.

Mexican police have recaptured Joaquin
Guzman six months after the fugitive drug
kingpin's escape from prison.

Guzman, the head of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, was Mexico's most-wanted fugitive. He
had escaped from a maximum security prison
six months ago.

"Mission accomplished, we have him," Enrique
Pena Nieto, Mexico's president, announced via
Twitter on Friday.

Guzman, also known as El Chapo, was caught
after a shootout with security forces in Los
Mochis, in his home state of Sinaloa, according
to a federal official.

The official said Guzman was taken alive and
was not wounded.

Five people were killed and one Mexican marine
injured in the clash at a house.

The Mexican navy said marines seized two
armoured vehicles, eight rifles, a handgun, and a grenade launcher in the raid that recaptured the fugitive.

"A few weeks ago there was a close call in his
home state of Sinaloa, this morning not so
lucky," Al Jazeera's Natasha Ghoneim, reporting
from Ahuisculco in Mexico, said.

"The Mexican government is saying that this
morning military responded to a building in
Sinaloa after someone compliant that armed
men were holding up inside a building."

Hours later, Guzman - wearing a dark shirt and
sweatpants - was marched by marines into a
military helicopter at Mexico City's international
airport.

In a statement, the US Drug Enforcement Agency said: "The capture of Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman- Loera is a victory for the rule of law and the Mexican people and government.

"It is further evidence of our two countries'
resolve to ensure justice is served for families
who have been plagued by Guzman-Loera's
ruthless acts of violence."

His prison escape in July was the second for
Guzman in 15 years - and a major
embarrassment for Pena Nieto.

Escape stories

Guzman was first captured in 1993 in
Guatemala, but he escaped from a prison in
western Mexico in 2001 by hiding in a laundry
cart.

In July 2015, he fled a maximum-security prison
near Mexico City just 17 months after authorities captured him following a 13-year manhunt.

He escaped through a 1.5km tunnel with a
redesigned motorcycle on special tracks,
emerging in a house outside the prison.

Nieto had refused to hand Guzman over to the
US, but Mexican authorities are now likely to
extradite him there.


www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/mexico-recaptures-notorious-druglord-el-chapo-160108183908621.html


Cc: Mynd44, Lalasticlala.

The person who snitch better chew and swallow his sim card.

BTW, I'm rooting for El Chapo Scofield to break free again. I guess I've watched too many movies.

He reminds me of the serial escapist Steven Jay Russell sentenced to solitary confinement for 144 years, only having one free hour daily to shower and exercise to prevent him from escaping, because of the embarrassment his multiple but ingenius escapes caused the U.S govt. He's due to be released in 2140.

You can read up on his story here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Jay_Russell

Or watch the movie about him that has been banned in most countries of the world titled "I Love You Philip Morris".

Saw the news this morning. This guy played hide and seek a lot when he was a kid.

He'll escape again

Laudable effort but not yet uhuru. The ninja has proven to be the proverbial cat with nine lives.

How does this guy even break out of jail??

He's committed so much atrocities, he shouldve long been given lethal injection. If a Nigerian did all these in South America or Asia, he'd long be dead, then how much more the number one drug cartel in the world.

yemaldo:
He'll escape again

I won't be surprised. Corrupt officials can always guarantee that.

HE WILL STILL ESCAPE UNLESS THEY HANG HIM.

No be el chapo again? The guy go still cut out soon! He is like the wind.....

Bia, Lalasticlala, goodmorning.

Did you miss this thread?? This is news making headlines on international media yet you don't imagine it deserves NLFp??

Dude won't even stay in the cell for up to a month... Unless of course he us extradited to the United States of which is going to be an unpopular decision.

And he had guts to challenge ISIL to a wrestling contest.

Hand him over to the US and watch him say goodbye to life almost immediately...

Chubhie:
And he had guts to challenge ISIL to a wrestling contest.

Exactly. And some folks around here said he could dismantle ISIL if it gets down to war.

Dude looks like a common thief here. I doubt he'd be able to make it out this time, but at the same time, wouldn't completely dismiss what corrupt officials are capable of.

patrickmuf:
Hand him over to the US and watch him say goodbye to life almost immediately...

Exactly. If Al Capone couldn't make it out, I don't see how El Chapo can.

omenka:
Exactly. And some folks around here said he could dismantle ISIL if it gets down to war.

Dude looks like a common thief here. I doubt he'd be able to make it out this time, but at the same time, wouldn't completely dismiss what corrupt officials are capable of.

I felt a lil bit disappointed cos I wasted time and effort to research about him and his operations after he read the riot act to ISIL.

He's already a national embarrassment to the Mexican govt so I see noway out for him anymore.

omenka:
Exactly. And some folks around here said he could dismantle ISIL if it gets down to war.

Dude looks like a common thief here. I doubt he'd be able to make it out this time, but at the same time, wouldn't completely dismiss what corrupt officials are capable of.

The most dangerous men all around the world always have a common "thief" look. They look slow and harmless but are a "danger" itself

That niggur may still escape

Mexico is as corrupt if not more corrupt than Nigeria so him escaping again soon won't make headlines.

Make dem kill this thing na, abi which kind Tom and Jerry be this.

This movie is selling big time

Hand over this guy to the US authorities. His Michael Scofield days will come to an abrupt end.