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Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been recaptured seven months after he escaped from prison, Mexican authorities announced Friday.

• El Chapo used Coronel to tell his sons to purchase firearms, an armored truck and a warehouse near the prison to facilitate his eventual 2015 escape, according to testimony from a cooperating witness. She also allegedly made payments totaling around $1 million to the same witness in an attempt to help her husband escape prison a third time.
• How did El Chapo escape in 2015? In July 2015, El Chapo - which means 'shorty' in English - escaped Mexico’s top-security prison, Altiplano Prison, through a mile-long tunnel complete with.
• The True Story Of El Chapos First Escape I was sitting at a table on my own at a restaurant in Acapulco’s Zocalo enjoying a glass of wine and indulging in my favorite pastime of people watching when I was approached by an older, thin, grey haired man one evening last summer.

How did El Chapo escape? By digging a deep tunnel out of Mexican prison Federal police guard a drainage pipe outside of the Altiplano maximum security prison in Almoloya, west of Mexico City. Surveillance video from inside Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's cell has been released showing the exact moment of escape.

But this isn’t the first time El Chapo, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, has been on the lam. The drug kingpin has a long history of capture, escape and recapture.

Here are some major dates in Guzman’s timeline (with some information from the Associated Press):

• June 10, 1993: Mexico announces Guzman’s first capture in Guatemala. But even after Guzman was imprisoned, “He continued to manage his affairs from prison with scarcely a hitch,” writes Robert Saviano in his book ZeroZeroZero. “The maximum security prison Puente Grande, where he was transferred in 1995, became his new base of operations,”

• Jan. 19, 2001: With the help of bribed guards, Guzman escapes from his top-security prison. Saviano describes the escape: “One of them—Francisco Camberos Rivera, known as El Chito, or the Silent One—opened the door to El Chapo’s cell and helped him climb into a cart of dirty laundry. They headed down unguarded hallways and through wide-open electronic doors to the inner parking lot, where only one guard was on duty. El Chapo jumped out of the cart and leaped into the trunk of a Chevrolet Monte Carlo.”

• Feb. 22, 2014: El Chapo is captured in Mazatlan after hiding in tunnels for days. The success was touted as a huge win for authorities, who by then had deemed Guzman the “most powerful drug trafficker in the world.”

• July 11, 2015: Guzman escapes through a tunnel from Mexico’s top-security prison. You can see the path he took to escape here.

• Jan. 8, 2016: He is once again re-captured in Los Mochis, Sinaloa after a shootout with Mexican marines. Five people were killed and one marine was wounded in the fight.

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Compiling information on the methods likely used by those digging the tunnel that Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman escaped prison through, this detailed infographic presents the tools and costs of the operation.

Did El Chapo Escape 2020

For the second time in 15 years Mexico’s most infamous drug lord escaped from a maximum-security prison. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, or the king of drains and tunnels, and his Sinaloa Cartel have been credited with building nearly 100 other tunnels on the US-Mexico border, including one he referred to as an “f’n cool tunnel.” Taking 12-16 months to make and costing an estimated $5 million dollars, how did he do it?

We dig a little deeper.

*This article was originally published on Powertool World, and is republished with permission. See the original here.

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