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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s latest taste of freedom nearly came to an abrupt end thanks to his daughters’ pet monkey.
The Mexican drug baron’s ability to break out from ostensibly secure prisons has infuriated and embarrassed the authorities and intensified pressure on the unpopular government led by Enrique Pena Nieto.
But, according to reports in Mexican media, the country’s most wanted fugitive, who escaped in July, came within a whisker of being recaptured because of Boots, the much loved pet belonging to the gangster’s four-year-old twin daughters.
The pet was adopted by the Guzman family when he was recaptured after a decade on the run and incarcerated in Altiplano prison.
Boots was left behind when the Guzman family moved back to Sinaloa and this, according to Anabel Hernadez, a Mexican investigative journalist, proved too much to bear.
Having been reunited with his children following his latest escape, Guzman dispatched his associates to fetch Boots.
For somebody who has made a living out of drugs, murder and masterminding a terrifying criminal cartel, Guzman was surprisingly punctilious about observing the law when it came to reuniting the monkey with his daughters.
A permit was requested to enable Boots to fly and the application for the correct documents put the security services back on the drug baron’s trail, with the police discovering that the monkey was being carried in a Ford Mustang belonging to his brother in law.
The police closed in on Guzman, but somehow the 60 year old gangster made his escape reportedly injuring himself as he fell down a regime.
Mexican marines, aided by US agents, believed that they had come close to capturing their prey.
The net tightened as the authorities traced Guzman’s mobile phone to a ranch in the Sierra Madre mountains.
But the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, who broke out of a high security jail after only 17 months by digging a hole in his shower to a tunnel, remains at large.
