Mexican Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Has Leg, Face Injuries

The world’s most-wanted drug boss, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, narrowly evaded security forces searching for him in the northwest of Mexico in recent days, sustaining injuries to his face and leg, the Mexican government said.

Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, escaped from his high-security prison cell in July through a specially-dug 1.5-kilometre tunnel and a redesigned motorcycle on special tracks, causing a major embarrassment for Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto.

After Guzman’s escape troops shut off 13 communities from Jesus Maria – 30 miles north of the state’s capital Culiacan – to the nearby states of Durango and Chihuahua, in order to search for him.

The marines later went in on foot and found cellphones, medication and two-way radios.

While Guzman has been the topic of many regional songs in Mexico in the United States this is the second hip hop song that features the moustachoued capo.

Until then, Guzman had been on the run from another prison break he staged in 2001 after he was carried to freedom, hidden inside a laundry basket.

The tunnel itself was equipped with lights, air vents, and even a motorbike mounted on rails to reduce the time needed to get away.

As previously reported, new leaked audio reveals that when Guzmán escaped from his cell through a hole in the bathroom, the guards were caught completely unaware.

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Pena Nieto had refused to hand Guzman over to the United States, but the authorities have now secured an arrest warrant to extradite him if he is captured again.

The government had resisted doing so, citing national sovereignty, but since his jailbreak has appeared to change its stance on extradition. “I mean, he is the most hated person right now in Mexico”. In Mexico, the first run of the costume has already run out forcing the company called El Coco which sells its costumes in both the US and in Mexico to scramble to produce more, Mexico’s El Universal reported.

Mexican Marines zeroed in last week on the Sinaloa cartel kingpin after US drug agents intercepted cell phone signals suggesting “El Chapo” was hiding at a ranch near Cosala in the rugged Sierra Madre mountains in western Mexico, according to three sources with knowledge of the operation.