Posted on 07/27/2015 9:57:38 AM PDT by rktman
Inside El Chapo’s secret Mexican prison escape tunnel (VIDEO) 7/27/15 | by Chris Eger
Vice News traveled south of the border and dropped down the most famous underground tunnel in the world– that used by a Mexican drug lord to vacate the premises.
The figurehead of the Sinaloa cartel, drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, released himself on his own recognizance on July 11, via a tunnel from Mexico’s only maximum-security prison in Mexico.
It took him a year to arrange his self-parole and Vice went to Altiplano prison– where they found a different tale than what the local media have been reporting.
In short, a couple guys with a spoon didn’t pull this one off.
(Excerpt) Read more at guns.com ...
He’ll be dead soon. All that effort for money he can’t take with him.
I do not believe he used the tunnel. Me thinks he walked out the front door. The tunnel is nothing more than a shiny object for the press and to cover those complicit in the ‘escape’.
...according to a former DEA supervisory agent who still has a deep network of contacts in Mexico... the retired DEA agent, Hector Berrellez... "Chapo [Guzman] was protected by Mexican federal agents and military, by the Mexican government," Berrellez told Narco News. "He was making [Mexican President Enrique] Peña Nieto look bad, and so the government decided to withdraw his security detail. Chapo was told he could either surrender, or he would be killed." Berrellez, who retired from the DEA in 1996, stresses that he is not speaking on behalf of the US government, but rather as an individual who has decades of law enforcement experience, including serving as DEA's lead investigator in Mexico... Guzman was apprehended early Saturday morning, Feb. 22, in an unremarkable condominium tower in the Pacific resort town of Mazatlan, Mexico, without a shot being fired and no security detail present to offer a fight. "This guy [Guzman] was bigger than Pablo Escobar [the infamous Colombian narco-trafficker whom law enforcers killed in 1993 in a rooftop shootout in Medellin]," Berrellez says. "He [Guzman] ran around with a several-hundred man security detail that included Mexican military and federal agents, yet, in the end, he is arrested like a rat in a hole.
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