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Mexico: Drug Lord “El Chapo” Guzman Recaptured

E. CASTILLO
M. STEVENSON
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The
world’s most-wanted drug
lord was captured for a
third time in a daring raid
Friday by Mexican marines,
six months after he tun-
neled out of a maximum
security prison in a made-
for-Hollywood escape that
deeply embarrassed the
government and strained
ties with the United States.
Mexican President Enrique
Pena Nieto announced
the capture of Joaquin
“El Chapo” Guzman, writ-
ing in his Twitter account:
“mission accomplished:
we have him.” Few had
thought Guzman would be
taken alive, and few now
believe Mexico will want
to try to hold him a third
time in Mexican prisons. He
escaped from maximum-
security facilities in 2001
and on July 11, 2015, the
second breakout espe-
cially humiliating for the
Pena Nieto administration,
which only held him for less
than 18 months. The U.S.
has sought his extradition,
though Mexico in the past
has said he would serve
sentences here first.

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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks at a press conference following the capture of fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo”
Guzman, in Mexico City, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. Pena announced that Guzman had been recaptured six months after escaping from
a maximum security prison.

(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)