Posted on 07/27/2015 5:13:48 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
On June 25, the United States issued a formal request to the Mexican government for the extradition of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as Chapo, who was being held at Mexico’s highest security prison. On July 11, less than three weeks later, Guzmán Loera released himself from the supposedly impregnable prison in President Enrique Peña Nieto’s home state, by means of a sixty-foot-deep tunnel that had apparently been dug from a half-built house a mile away, directly into the shower of his prison cell. Guzmán, of course, had been transferred to the Almoloya prison immediately after his capture eighteen months earlier, in February 2014, even as the government of Peña Nieto made it clear that its most important trophy in the decades-long war on drugs would not be sent to face charges in the United States, unlike so many other captured drug lords.
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Now that anyone who is following the story feels that no news break could top what we have seen this past week, the unusually well-sourced and serious weekly magazine Proceso has come out with a breathtaking new version of what happened in its July 19 issue. According to the magazine, Chapo really was taken prisoner unawares last year in his home state of Sinaloa, but not by Mexican security forces. Instead, he was arrested by DEA agents and US marshals disguised as Mexican marines. This information comes from two unnamed and uncharacterized US sources who spoke to a Proceso reporter in Washington, DC. According to the sources, US intelligence had been successfully tracking Guzmán during the first three weeks of February 2014, thanks to a combination of satellite surveillance and information provided by his associates. On the night of February 22, when Guzmán checked into a quiet beachfront hotel in the resort city of Mazatlán. . .
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Mexican marines? I can hear many jokes of questionable taste...
Halls of Montezuma...
[Mexican marines? I can hear many jokes of questionable taste..]
The Mexican Naval Infantry Force (Marines) entered the drug war when the Mexican Army became too corrupted to be effective.
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