Mexico has arrested 13 more people in connection with the escape of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, including the former director of the high-security prison he escaped from and a government official who oversaw Mexico’s prisons.
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Celina Oseguera, a coordinator for Mexico’s prison system, and Valentin Cardenas Lerma and Leonor Garcia, directors at Altiplano prison where Guzman was held, were among those arrested.
Mexican investigators say that Guzman, Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, had key inside information to ease his escape, as well as support or acquiesce from prison insiders.
Six days after the escape, seven prison workers were charged and four officials, including two members of Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional, CISEN, Mexico’s intelligence agency, were charged for their alleged roles in the jailbreak.
Guzman, sometimes branded as the world’s biggest drug lord and who is also wanted in the United States, made a well-planned, elaborate escape on July 11. Alejandro Encinas, told EFE that a still-unreleased video and audio recording of Guzman’s escape existed and would show the web of complicity the drug kingpin wove to pull off his prison break.
Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, 29, has been regularly posting on social networks about his father, but probably forgot to remove the location tag in early September. They will now all be serving time as inmates of that prison.
First arrested in Guatemala in 1993, Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman spent almost a decade in another maximum-security Mexican jail before escaping, reportedly in a laundry basket. He was only recaptured 13 years later, in 2014 in Mazatlan, a tourist resort on the Pacific coast.
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There is a $3.8 million reward for Guzman’s capture.
