Former Mexican Official Says Leaked Intel May Have Caused 'El Chapo' Escape Jorge Ramos - Fusion
go to original July 15, 2015

When news broke that the most powerful drug lord in the world - Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman - managed to escape maximum security prison in Mexico for a second time, questions of corruption were immediately raised. Media outlets called it an embarrassment to the Mexican government and President Enrique Peña Nieto, who refused to extradite El Chapo to the U.S. when he was arrested in February 2014.

But a plan of extradition may have been the very reason for El Chapo’s escape this time around.

Former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castañeda told Fusion’s Jorge Ramos that it’s possible plans of extradition were leaked to El Chapo.

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Related: Mexico Releases Footage of 'Chapo' Escape, But Will Public Believe It? (VICE News)
 

Closed-circuit video shows the moment the drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera broke out of prison in Mexico. (Curious World)

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