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Mexico’s government has released a video showing the moment fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman entered his prison cell’s shower before escaping.

Mexican authorities released the security footage that shows notorious drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman, aka “El Chapo“, escaping from prison through a tunnel, en route to his first celebratory beer.

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

He pads back to the shower, kneels behind the wall, and disappears.

REUTERS/Edgard Garrido A view of an area of the tunnel connected to the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary and used by drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to escape, in Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City, July 14, 2015.

Despite Guzman’s history of paying off authorities and other residents to get his way, former Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam in January shrugged off concerns over whether the drug lord could break free, saying the risk of a second escape “does not...

Mexican authorities have distributed 100,000 photographs of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to highway toll booths since his weekend escape from a maximum security prison, the interior ministry announced Wednesday.

Infamous drug kingpin El Chapo remains on the loose after his dramatic escape from a maximum security Mexican prison.

Footage has been released showing the intricate underground escape route that Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman used to make his break out of prison over the weekend, so he could kick back and enjoy a beer in peace.

A forensics worker climbs out of the tunnel that according to authorities was used by Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, to escape from the Altiplano maximum security prison in Almoloya, Mexico, Tuesday, … “He continued being a powerful person...

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.

Mexico is offering a reward of 60 million pesos ($3.8m) for the capture of the country’s most-wanted drug lord, who escaped from a top security prison.

The full implications of the jailbreak are yet to emerge, but the high-profile escape could provide the United States government with leverage to demand the extradition of other top drug lords held in the very same prison.

The escape of the world’s most-wanted drug lord from a maximum-security prison in Mexico isn’t a moment to celebrate and gloat over for most people.

Pena Nieto said in a televised interview that allowing him to escape again would be “unforgiveable”. “All the accolades that Mexico has received in their counterdrug efforts will be erased by this one event”, Vigil said.