7 officials charged with aiding escape of 'El Chapo'

americanthinker.com ^ | 7/18/2015 | Rick Moran

[rktman]

The Mexican government announced that 7 officials have been charged in aiding and abetting the escape of cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. The Mexican AG's office would not name the officials charged, but how surprised would you be if they didn't include any higher-ups? The director of the prison where El Chapo escaped has been fired, but no word if he was involved in the escape plot.

Guzman's escape last Saturday from a maximum security prison through a mile-long tunnel built into his cell was a profound embarrassment for President Enrique Peña Nieto, raising pressure on the government to do more to battle public sector corruption.

[lewislynn]

Guzman's escape last Saturday from a maximum security prison through a mile-long tunnel

One thing you can say about Mexicans, they really know how to dig.

[Navy Patriot]

So some low level types will be hung out to dry while their superiors who were probably just as involved lavishly bribed to organize the escape, skate.

There, fixed it for you....

[boycott]

Obama is willing to offer them all amnesty.

[DPMD]

This explains why mexico declined the US offer of assistance in recapturing El Shorty: Mexican politicians would have to give the money back.

[oldvirginian]

I think CaptainHardball would be a better fit.
But that’s just me.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Wait you mean he didn’t dig the tunnel himself?

[SunkenCiv]

But our top story, Trump and all Republicans racists, including Rick Perry. Thanks rktman.

[SunkenCiv]

• "El Chapo's" Arrest Packaged for Media Consumption [08/12/2014]

  ...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.

• 'El Chapo' and El Banco: What You Haven't Been Told [02/28/2014]
• World's Most Notorious Drug-Lord -- Billionaire Mexican Cartel Boss "El Chapo" -- Captured [02/22/2014]
• Mexico's Sinaloa drug chief arrested (Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman [02/22/2014]
• Sinaloa Cartel chief 'El Chapo' captured alive, says U.S. official [02/22/2014]
• Who is 'El Chapo' Guzman, Public Enemy Number One? [02/15/2013]
• Is the U.S. sending Seal Team Six to capture top drug cartel kingpin? (Fast and Furious cover up???) [08/15/2012]
• Mexico arrests figure in Fast and Furious gun-smuggling scandal [02/07/2012]
• The Anti-Christ Walks Through Mexico [01/13/2012]
• Wife of Mexican Drug Lord Gives Birth in California, Then Returns to Mexico [09/28/2011]
• Mexico's Sinaloa gang grows empire, defies crackdown [01/20/2011]
• Cartel boss may resort to force north of border [05/06/2009]
• Mexico Gunmen Kill (8) Youths, Take Hostages [07/14/2008]
• Drug lord's cars, houses seized (Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman) [06/24/2005]
• Fugitive protected by townspeople who view him as hero (Mexico) [05/31/2005]
• Mexican Drug Lord Seeks Control Of The Border [05/27/2005]

[rktman]

Yeah, but you forgot to add that Trump is also anti-pow. Or something. I’m sure the reports on his statements aren’t taken out of context or anything. I haven’t read the transcripts so I can’t say. While I respect mccains service and his suffering during his captivity, that shouldn’t be an automatic pass for the dunderheaded crap he’s done while senator. :>}

[SunkenCiv]

No, anything that McCain did or didn’t do while Senator shouldn’t be an automatic pass for The Rug to smear him and mock both his service and his captivity. Trump is quite simply an a-hole about this, and needs to apologize for it, NOW.