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APTOPIX Mexico Drug Lord Escapes

by Eduardo Verdugo
| July 15, 2015 4:29 PM

A journalist reports from the exit of the tunnel that according to authorities, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman used to escape from the Altiplano maximum security prison in Almoloya, west of Mexico City, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. A widespread manhunt that included highway checkpoints, stepped up border security and closure of an international airport failed to turn up any trace of Guzman after he escaped through an underground tunnel in his prison cell on Saturday night. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)