U.S. offers $5M for information on escaped Mexican drug lord

“His escape poses a danger to the safety and security of both our countries”, said Chuck Rosenberg, acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

“Where is he probably the safest and best-protected?”

Because of Guzman’s vast reach, just over half of Mexicans (52 percent) say that the government must recapture him, but a worrying 40 percent believe that there is no point in returning him to jail – a figure that represents an apparent loss of confidence in the authorities and the justice system.

The drug cartel leader broke out of a Mexican prison last month in an elaborate escape that included a hidden motorcycle and a mile-long tunnel.

A file handout picture released by the Attorney General of Mexico (PGR) shows the mugshot of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka “el Chapo Guzman”, published on the PGR website on February 22, 2014.

“We have sources in Mexico we can work closely with. This does not extend to the whole of government”, he said.

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman the most notable remedy noble in Mexico who exactly mind the Sinaloa Cartel essentially the country’s most effective, runaway the second time frame typically from highest possible intrusion penal complex said Mexican authorities because started to such a manhunt. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and US Marshals Service have also gotten involved in the hunt, Rosenberg said.

– A tip line has been set up and a wanted poster distributed for Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman – again. But Rosenberg acknowledged that the elusive Guzman could be anywhere.

“El Chapo” escaped from the maximum-security Altiplano Federal Prison in the town of Almoloya de Juarez in Mexico on July 12. Guzman previously escaped from prison in 2001 and was only recaptured previous year. Sinaloa smuggles billions of dollars’ worth of cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine into the United States, and has fought brutal wars with other Mexican gangs over turf and drug trafficking routes.