Government Is Handing Out 100,000 Wanted Leaflets for Escaped Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Daniel Hernandez - VICE News
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A Federal Police shows a reward notice for information leading to the capture of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who made his escape from the Altiplano maximum security prison via an underground tunnel, in Almoloya, west of Mexico City. (AP/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico's government is printing and handing out 100,000 leaflets with three photos of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's face to motorists in 21 states and the Federal District amid high road travel for summer vacation.

The "wanted" leaflets offer a 60 million pesos reward, or $3.8 million, for information leading to Guzman's capture. They also show Guzman's birthdate as April 4, 1957, although the US government says he was born in 1954.

The measure is part of what the government calls a manhunt to find the figurehead of the Sinaloa cartel in case he is still in the country. Guzman escaped from the Altiplano maximum-security prison six days ago through a tunnel dug in his shower stall.

"We're doing everything necessary without regard for the complexity of the challenge so that justice and the law will prevail," Mexican interior minister Miguel Osorio Chong said on Thursday night.

Authorities said they would be handing out the leaflets asking for help in Chapo's arrest in most of the southern and central states of Mexico, including the drug lord's home state of Sinaloa, as well as Jalisco, Michoacan, and State of Mexico, all entities where drug trafficking and drug-related violence are high.

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