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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.

He was last seen at about 9 p.m.at the Altiplano prison entering his shower room, said Monte Alejandro Rubido, head of Mexico’s National Security Commission.

Some U.S. prosecutors wanted to ask for his extradition following last year’s arrest, but Mexican officials insisted on trying him first.

(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File).

CNN reported the National Security Commission said Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was discovered to be missing from the Altiplano Federal Prison when guards were doing a routine check on Saturday.