Making your way in to the cinder block barn that hid. Albuquerque journal the last narco is a brave and terrific headlong journalistic trek into the dangerous, and immensely relevant, terrain of drug trafficking in mexico, and the life and times of its foremost practitioner. According to the mexican authorities, the 59yearold prisoner went for a shower late in the evening of july 11. In 2001 he escaped and hasnt been captured ever since. A model of the mexican drug kingpins escape route from his jail. The ventilated passage included a motorcycle adapted to run along a rail, and emerges in a. A blend of manhunt, killing pablo, and zero dark thirty, andrew hogan and douglas centurys sensational investigative hightech thrillersoon to be a major motion picture from sonychronicles a riveting chapter in the twentiethcentury drug wars. The series premiered on april 23, 2017 on univision before airing on netflix worldwide. Before his capture, following an escape from another secure prison in 2001, guzman had been on the run for thirteen. Authorities say he slipped through a hatch hidden in the wall of the shower saturday at 8.
The elaborate underground escape route, allegedly built without the. In a newly released video mexican marines can be seen smashing through the. In july 2015, the 46yearold escaped from a maximum security prison by crawling. Additional video shows the tunnel he used to escape. Doctorow is awarded the national book critics circle award. The prisonescape route of the worlds most notorious drug lord. He is considered to have been the most powerful drug trafficker in the world. Video shows mexican drug kingpin escaping maximum security. How mexicos mostwanted drug lord escaped from prison again. Guzman had done just that to get away from hogan and his team. Plans probably were being made from the moment he entered the prison.
Jul 12, 2015 a manhunt has been launched to find mexican drug kingpin joaquin guzman after he escaped from prison. The inside story of how the drugs baron was first captured. Following joaquin guzmans escape, mexican officials are widening their manhunt, as mark potter goes inside guzmans escape tunnel. A notorious mexican drug kingpin who escaped once before from prison and spent more than a decade on the lam has done it again. This is the walk in closet which was certainly more walking tunnel. Newsweek malcolm beiths book is a virtual nonstop chase. Yet, if a disturbing video recently uncovered by police is to be believed, he will be able to make another escape in 2017 whenever he wants to. Mexicos attorney general tours the building at the end of the tunnel used by joaquin guzman to escape from altiplano maximum security. General jorge carrillo olea, the former chief of mexicos spy agency cisen, agrees. Jul 19, 2015 rts correspondent in mexico has descended into the 1.
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