Notorious drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo'
Guzman Loera has been recaptured six months after his elaborate escape
from a Mexican maximum security prison.
President Nieto tweeted a message of victory to the country, "Mission
accomplished: We have him. I want to inform Mexicans Joaquín Guzmán
Loera has been arrested."
The raid also ended in the capture of El Chapo's right-hand man 'El Cholo', a hitman who was also on the run from the law.
Guzman escaped from the Altiplano maximum security prison near Mexico
City in July, riding a motorcycle through a mile-long tunnel that opened
into the shower area of his cell. He was last seen on security footage
taken in the shower area of the prison, before slipping out of sight and
into the tunnel.
It is not yet clear whether El Chapo will be extradited to the US, but
he was seen being bundled on to a plane by security officials late on
Friday afternoon
Guzman was arrested in Guatemala in 1993 on drug-trafficking charges,
before being extradited to Mexico and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
He was sent to the Puente Grande maximum security prison in Jalisco
state, from which he escaped with the help of prison guards, allegedly
by hiding in a laundry cart.
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