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They got el chapo

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Don't have a story to post to but it just broke on CNN.

Wonder if they keep him for a third escape or will they actually send him here?

Wouldn't it be funny if he escaped tomorrow lol...BTW he was caught in Sinaloa by special forces with Intel from the US if I had to guess.
 
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'Mission accomplished': Mexican President says 'El Chapo' caught

(CNN)Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been captured, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced Friday via Twitter.

"Mission Accomplished," the President wrote. "We have him."

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/08/americas/el-chapo-captured-mexico/
 
Mexican president: Fugitive drug kingpin 'El Chapo' caught

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced Friday on Twitter that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the elusive Mexican drug kingpin, has been captured.

"Mission accomplished," Peña Nieto said on Twitter.

An official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be quoted by name told the Associated Press that Guzman was captured following a shootout with Mexican marines in the city of Los Mochis, in Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa.

Guzman had been on the run since July, when he fled from a high security prison by escaping through an elaborate tunnel that ended beneath a shower stall in his cell. Police arrested the prison governor and several guards in connection with the breakout. It was Guzman's second successful escape.

Guzman wielded so much power as head of the Sinaloa drug cartel that the Chicago Crime Commission called him Public Enemy No. 1, a label applied to gangster Al Capone in 1930.

After Guzman's first escape in 2001, from Puente Grande prison, he spent more than a decade on the run, rising to lead the Sinaloa cartel, which smuggles large quantities of drugs into the United States. The cartel is a key player in a drug war that has ravaged parts of Mexico for years and cost thousands of lives.

Guzman escaped that time with the help of prison guards, who possibly hid him in a laundry cart. He was recaptured in February 2014 and held at Altiplano before his escape in July.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...sident-drug-kingpin-el-chapo-caught/78510646/
 
all that dough and he doesn't disappear. what a dipshit.

I was thinking the same thing. Nothing other than blinded pride would be the reason for him to stay and continue to run his organisation. With all his accrued wealth I would have slipped onto a yacht and sailed into the pacific. New identity and very few friends ( ideally no one from your past) and I would be happy to die a relative recluse in Thailand or some coastal town in South America.
 
How El Chapo's narcissism led to his capture: Fugitive drug lord was nabbed after contacting actors to make Narcos-style BIOPIC about his rags-to-riches life... as he returns to jail he escaped from

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera was apprehended in a pre-dawn raid on a motel in Los Mochis, Mexico
He was tracked down after he contacted producers and actors to make a Narcos-style biopic of his own life
Hideout was around 1,300 miles from the jail he escaped from in July last year after fleeing through a tunnel
El Chapo escaped from police through a sewer but was caught and arrested still wearing filthy tank top he fled in
Five cartel gangsters were killed and six others arrested in the raid, which also left a Mexican marine injured
Vast arsenal of weapons including rocket launchers, machine guns and armored vehicles was seized
US drug enforcement officials and US Marshals helped capture El Chapo and his right-hand man El Cholo
The drug lord had been on the run since July, when he staged a daring escape from Mexico's most secure prison
Incredibly, he was sent back to Altiplano jail overnight after being bundled into a helicopter by Mexican soldiers
El Chapo is also wanted in the U.S. for several drug trafficking charges but it is not clear if he will be extradited

Notorious drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has finally been recaptured and returned to the same maximum security jail he broke out from six months ago after authorities were tipped off to his whereabouts when he tried to make a film of his own life, according to Mexico's attorney general.

The cartel leader's narcissism appears to have been his downfall after he began the process of making a biopic, similar to that of Netflix's popular Narcos show on the life of infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, following his escape from the Altiplano jail last July.
El Chapo, which means 'the short one' in Spanish, had even started to contact producers and actresses through intermediaries to tell his 'rags to riches' story, which was what finally helped police track him down. The names of the stars he approached have not yet been confirmed.

He was arrested on Friday after a 4am raid on a house in the town of Los Mochis, located in the kingpin's home state of Sinaloa, which saw him once again escape from the clutches of police.
The cartel leader and an accomplice fled from agents through a filthy sewer, before emerging into the street where they stole cars and took off. But authorities were able to catch up with them and the cartel leader was brought back to a nearby hotel while police waited for back up, Gómez said.

In a picture of his arrest at the hotel, El Chapo is stood still wearing the dirty tank top, which showed off several fresh scratches on his arms after his sewer escape.
Despite tunneling out in July, Mexican marines returned him to the Altiplano jail - considered to be the most secure prison in the entire country - earlier today. Until El Chapo, no-one had ever successfully escaped from the facility.
Washington, which requested his extradition last June before his escape from jail, is almost certain to seek extradition since his recapture. The drugs lord faces at least seven indictments in the United States.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-security-prison-tunneled-six-months-ago.html
 
‘Movie deal’ brought Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman unstuck

MEXICO’S Attorney-General said marines were able to recapture Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman due partly to their discovery that the fugitive Sinaloa cartel kingpin had contacted people in the film industry about making a movie about his life.

“An important aspect in determining his location was having discovered Guzman Loera’s intention to film a biopic, to which end he had contacted actresses, actors and producers,” Arely Gomez told reporters at the Mexico City International Airport.

She said surveillance work allowed investigators “to document the meetings of (Guzman’s) attorneys with these people.”

The Attorney-General said the 58-year-old Guzman, who had escaped from a Mexican maximum-security prison last July through a tunnel dug to his cell, was spotted by helicopter in Pueblo Nuevo, Durango state, in October but managed to escape down a ravine.

She added that security forces had been unable to shoot at him on that occasion because he was accompanied by two women and a young girl.

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http://www.news.com.au/world/north-...k/news-story/bf938db2b6c1c32e028af37e9b106bb6
 
El Chapo, which means 'the short one' in Spanish, had even started to contact producers and actresses through intermediaries to tell his 'rags to riches' story, which was what finally helped police track him down. The names of the stars he approached have not yet been confirmed.

I expect that some stars or producers will be killed for revenge in the near future.
 
El Chapo's moll: How trusted Mexican actress Kate del Castillo brokered deal for Sean Penn to interview cartel boss... But ultimately proved his femme fatale

Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, 43, tweeted about El Chapo in 2012
She stated that she would trust El Chapo if it was a question between him or the seemingly corrupt Mexican government
Soon after she was contacted by one of his lawyers because he reportedly wanted to thank her with flowers
Eventually he enlisted del Castillo's help because he wanted a movie made about his life
The famed actress brokered the deal for Sean Penn to meet and interview El Chapo last year while he was on the run

Since the capturing of the world's most wanted man, there are many questions surrounding his latest arrest and how he allowed the beautiful Mexican actress Kate del Castillo into his inner circle.
The Rolling Stone piece in which famed actor Sean Penn documents his daring journey to Mexico to meet up with El Chapo Guzmán, ultimately led to the kingpin's recapture, six months after his elaborate prison break.
But the meeting between the double Oscar-winning actor and the famed drugs lord only seems to come about with del Castillo's help.
'He was interested in seeing the story of his life told on film, but would entrust its telling only to Kate,' Penn wrote in the magazine about El Chapo's desire to have a movie made about him.

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From there, her fame only grew and so did her voice to speak out about different issues plaguing the world and her country. In 2009 she was appointed Ambassador for the Mexican Commission on Human Rights and also posed in a PETA campaign in 2012.
The relationship between El Chapo and the 43-year-old beauty seems to have started at the beginning of 2012, when she first mentioned him in a tweet.

The Mexican film and television star, who is the daughter of soap opera actor Eric del Castillo, stated that she would trust El Chapo if it was a question between him or the seemingly corrupt Mexican government.
'Mr. Chapo, wouldn't it be cool that you started trafficking with love?' she wrote in the tweet.

'With cures for diseases, with food for the homeless children, with alcohol for the retirement homes that don't let the elderly spend the rest of the days doing whatever the f*** they want.
'Imagine trafficking with corrupt politicians instead of women and children who end up as slaves.
'Why don't you burn all those whorehouses where women are worth less than a pack of cigarettes. Without offer, there's no demand.

'Come on, Don! You would be the hero of heroes. Let's traffic with love. You know how to. Life is a business and the only thing that changes is the merchandise. Don't you agree?'
Soon after her initial tweet, the popular soap opera actress who famously played a drug lordess on television, was contacted by one of El Chapo's lawyers.

Cont -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rtel-boss-ultimately-proved-femme-fatale.html
 
El Chapo Guzman: Extraditing drug lord to the US could take a year, Mexico says

Extraditing slippery drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States could take a year or more, Mexican authorities say.

Key points:

Mexico says it could take at least a year to extradite El Chapo to the United States
US seeking to charge the drug baron for homicide and drug trafficking
Process could take as long as four to six years
El Chapo's lawyers vow 'tough' legal battle

The extradition bid marks a reversal from President Enrique Pena Nieto's refusal to send Guzman across the border prior to his July escape from a maximum-security prison.

After Guzman was recaptured on Friday, authorities launched the extradition process on Sunday, based on two US petitions on a clutch of charges, including drug trafficking and homicide.

"I could say as an estimate that it could be at least a year," Jose Manuel Merino, the international affairs official at the attorney general's office, told Radio Formula.

But Mr Merino warned that the process could last as a long as four to six years depending how hard Guzman's lawyers fight his extradition through injunctions.

Guzman's lawyer, Juan Pablo Badillo, has vowed to launch a "tough" legal battle that could reach the Supreme Court.

Guzman is now back at the Altiplano maximum-security prison, some 90 kilometres west of Mexico City.

The drug lord was previously arrested in February 2014 but it only took him 17 months to escape from the penitentiary after his henchmen dug a 1.5-kilometre tunnel to set him free.

A dozen prison officials have been arrested over the escape.

Officials defended the decision to put him back in the same prison, saying security was beefed up, including with the installation of metal rods under the floor.

Guzman escaped through a hole in his cell's shower floor.

The escape humiliated Mr Pena Nieto, who had vowed to keep him behind bars and put him on trial in Mexico even though the drug lord had already fled from another prison in 2001.

Sean Penn could be questioned over Rolling Stone interview

While Guzman could face US justice, Mexican authorities want to question US actor Sean Penn over his clandestine meeting with the then-fugitive in October.

A Mexican federal official said the Attorney-General's office also wanted to speak with Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who brokered the meeting.

"That is correct, of course, it's to determine responsibilities," the official said.

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough told CNN that Mr Penn's meeting with Guzman "poses a lot of interesting questions for him and others involved in this so-called interview".

"We'll see what happens," he said.

El Chapo's daring prison break

Find out how notorious drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman gave prison authorities the slip last year.
Rock magazine Rolling Stone published the interview that Guzman gave to the actors in an undisclosed jungle clearing in Mexico.

Despite Penn's cloak-and-dagger efforts to keep the gathering secret, another Mexican official said authorities found out about the meeting, which eventually helped them track down the Sinaloa drug cartel chief.

Guzman was recaptured on Friday in the seaside city of Los Mochis, in his native north-western state of Sinaloa, in a military operation that left five suspects dead.

Some legal experts, however, doubt that Penn could face charges in the United States or Mexico.

"I seriously doubt that charges will be brought against them even though Sean Penn took extraordinary steps to prevent authorities from using his phone to track the whereabouts of Chapo," said Mike Vigil, a former senior official at the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

The meeting sparked criticism in the United States, where Republican Senator Marco Rubio told ABC America television that the interview was "grotesque".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-12/extraditing-el-chapo-could-take-a-year-mexico-says/7082520
 
Footage released of deadly firefight that led to El Chapo capture

Authorities have released footage of the intense Sinaloa firefight leading up to the arrest of the world's most dangerous criminal, drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Five of Guzman's henchmen, including, according to some reports, two women, were killed in the successful "Black Swan" operation which was carried out by a crack team of Mexican Navy specialists in the city of Los Mochis.

Helmet cam video of the gritty battle shows the marines, armed to the teeth, responding to heavy gunfire, hurling stun grenades, and urging each other to hold their mettle – "tranquillo" – as the bullets fly.

One marine was wounded as the team drove the attackers back, but the notoriously slippery El Chapo was still to make one more bid for freedom, escaping the compound through a sewer and running some 300m through a pipe in the bowels of the city.

When he emerged, according to sinembargo.mx, he and a crew of four bodyguards assaulted the driver of a white Volkswagen Jetta, but their intended getaway vehicle was to be their undoing.

Once the car was reported stolen, the Navy team was able to locate the fugitive and clap him, putting paid to the humiliation the authorities suffered in July, when Guzman escaped the Altiplano Federal Prison via a tunnel.


Continued and vids at - at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/...t-led-to-el-chapo-capture#byYywdihuPL66wtm.99
 
I wonder if he will break out again while waiting to be extradited from Mexico... Wouldn't surprise me at all.
 
Of course he will break out again! He has been quoted as saying "anything that happens twice is sure to happen a third" Shortys confident %)
 
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