Documentary Questions Whether Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Guzman Actually Was Captured Matthew Hendley - New Times
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Not everyone is convinced that drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, actually was arrested by authorities earlier this year.

Documentary filmmaker Charlie Minn, who's produced several movies about drug violence in Mexico, says he went to El Paso, Texas, after hearing of Guzmán's arrest in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, and it didn't take long to hear people's disbelief.

"I heard people kind of mumbling, 'I don't think it's him,'" Minn tells New Times.

Guzmán's capture was a huge deal. After Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011, Guzmán replaced him as the most wanted fugitive in the world. He had been captured before but escaped from prison in 2001, and there were multimillion-dollar rewards for his capture.

After his latest arrest earlier this year, officials said fingerprints, DNA, and handwriting analysis all prove the man they arrested is indeed El Chapo. Plenty of people remain unconvinced.

The Los Angeles Times cited a poll of Mexicans that found about 42 percent of people believed Guzmán had indeed been arrested, whereas nearly 41 percent said he had not.

Minn says this belief seems to lie in the general belief that Mexican officials can't be trusted, but admits that hearing from people during the making of his film, ¿Es El Chapo?, has made him a little skeptical as well.

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