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Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán

Lawyer for Mexico’s most-wanted man, ‘El Chapo,’ doesn’t know where client is

Lawyer Juan Pablo Badillo has nothing but praise for his client Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, but says he doesn't know where he is.

Is ‘El Chapo’ in Costa Rica? Probably not, but he wouldn’t be the first kingpin to flee here

If Joaquín Guzmán is, in fact, in Costa Rica, he wouldn’t be the first Mexican narco to seek safe haven here. Notorious drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero fled to Costa Rica in March 1985 following the death in Mexico of DEA agent Enrique Camarena.

Salman Rushdie, Paul Aster and other prominent writers blast Mexican president over journalist slayings

"An attempt on the life of a journalist is an attack on society's very right to be informed."

Drug-smuggling pigeon caught outside Costa Rica prison

Members of Costa Rica's Penitentiary Police captured a pigeon carrying marijuana and cocaine near La Reforma prison in Palmares on Tuesday.

VIDEO: Hilarious parody of ‘El Chapo’ prison escape

A Taiwanese animated comedy station made a hilarious parody of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's seemingly piece-of-cake escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico.

Mexico sacks prison chiefs over Guzmán escape, offers bounty

Mexico's government offered a $3.8 million reward for the capture of fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on Monday and sacked top prison officials amid suspicions that guards helped him escape.

Mexico hunts drug kingpin, probes prison guards

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escaped through a hole that was apparently dug with the help of a motorcycle mounted on a rail to transport tools and remove earth. Prosecutors questioned 30 prison employees of various rank, including the warden, the attorney general's office said, signaling suspicions of an inside job.

Undermining Mexico: How ‘El Chapo’ built a criminal empire, and escaped prison, by digging deep

Though it is difficult to imagine Guzmán's accomplices digging under the prison for so long while avoiding detection, his engineers have been doing it for years right under the noses of U.S. border agents and their sophisticated technology.

Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán tunnels out of maximum security prison

After guards realized he had disappeared, they found the hatch that led by ladder down to the tunnel, which was illuminated, perforated with PVC piping for ventilation and equipped with an adapted motorcycle-on-rails to whisk the drug lord to freedom.

7 US court districts bring indictments against Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Seven federal districts in the United States have brought indictments against Mexican cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, setting off a competition to be the first to prosecute the man U.S. officials had described as "Public Enemy No. 1" before his arrest this past weekend.

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