Newly Released Surveillance Video Shows El Chapo Escape

CCTV footage shows Guzman, 58, also known as “Shorty” due to his 5ft 6in stature, walking to his prison bed where he sits and appears to change his shoes.

Mexican authorities have released surveillance video from Guzman’s maximum-security cell that shows his movements leading up to his escape.

Guzman had a bracelet that monitored his every move, the interior minister said.

Time Magazine reported that Guzman’s cell was equipped with CCTV cameras in order to monitor him remotely. Guzman’s break has proven to be one of the biggest embarrassments of Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration and is expected to further hurt the president’s plummeting approval ratings, now at around 40 percent.

Three prison officials have already been fired, including the director of the prison.

Mexico’s violent drug trade is estimated to have claimed more than 100,000 lives in the past decade.

The partition wall in the cell at the Altiplano federal prison, 55 miles west of Mexico City, blocked the camera’s view of Guzman’s escape. Several Mexican states have said they are doing the same, along with army or police patrols and airport stakeouts. He added that Gomez had been in touch with her USA counterpart, Loretta Lynch, and that the United States had expressed its willingness to cooperate in arresting Guzman.

With Guzman back at the helm, Mexico will see more violence while the United States will be flooded with more drugs, the ex-DEA agent said.

“You have to buy off the guards, and they know how rich he is”.

Amid mounting outrage at the escape, lawmakers in Congress asked Osorio Chong and other top security officials to testify on Thursday.

Video of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán’s Mexican prison escape tunnel. One of those blind spots included the opening to the escape tunnel, he said.

The tunnel ended in an unfinished house in the middle of an empty field. Whoever dug the tunnel likely used architectural plans of the prison to help them find Guzman’s cell.

Just a couple weeks later, Guzman was arrested near the Mexico-Guatemala border and later convicted on charges of drug trafficking, criminal association and bribery. It shows the drug kingpin pacing before he disappears from view behind a wall.

The US Justice Department describes the Sinaloa drug cartel, which Guzman heads up, as “one of the world’s most prolific, violent and powerful”.

For the first time since his latest capture on February 22, 2014, Guzman was free.

They had acquired blueprints of the prison, and worked a grueling 10 hour a day schedule for nearly an entire year before the tunnel was complete. A Twitter account, allegedly belonging to Guzman or a family member, sent threatening tweets to Trump in response.

Security experts point out that Sinaloa, the cartel he heads up, uses tunnels for drug smuggling.

Following Guzman’s capture, according to the documents, his son Ivan Guzman-Salazar became “the de facto leader of the Guzman branch of the Sinaloa Cartel“.