"El Chapo" escapes Mexican prison through mile-long tunnel. Note found in his cell.

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http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ZFH48v0P--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1337397115761179688.jpg = "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Letter found in the cell of Joaquin Guzman, “El Chapo” :: 7-11-2015 Mr. CHAPO, A MEAN MAN NAMED DONALD TRUMP IS TALKING BAD ABOUT MEXICANS. PLEASE HAVE A TALK WITH HIM. THANK YOU. JUANITO

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http://gawker.com/sinaloa-cartel-kingpin-escapes-from-mexican-prison-thro-1717320893

[font size=5]Sinaloa Cartel Kingpin Escapes From Mexican Prison Through Tunnel [/font]

On Sunday, Mexico’s top police official, Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido, announced that drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, kingpin of the Sinaloa Cartel, had escaped from maximum security prison through a hatch in his cell’s shower that opened to a mile-long tunnel.

Altiplano prison also houses Zetas drug cartel leader Miguel Angel Trevino and Edgar Valdes “La Barbie” Villarreal of the Beltran Leyva Cartel, the Associated Press reports. Eighteen prison employees have been taken in for questioning, Rubido said.

This is the second time Guzman has escaped from prison. According to the AP, Guzman was first captured in 1993, in Guatemala. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and escaped, with the help of guards at Puente Grande, another maximum-security prison, in 2001. In February of last year he was re-captured, in his home state of Sinaloa, for which the cartel is named. ....

After Guzman was captured, federal prosecutors in the United States said that he should be extradited. Former Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam told the AP that while doing so would save Mexico a lot of money, Guzman should be prosecuted at home as a matter of national sovereignty, dismissing concerns that he could escape again as a risk that “does not exist.”


(Gawker reader's comment: ) Goddamn Mexicans, stealing our prison-tunneling jobs.

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1. And HSBC bank laundered money for the Sinaloa Cartel but was "too big to indict"

Forget The Drug Dealers And Iran, HSBC Is Having A Great Year

By Nathan Vardi ,FORBES STAFF - DEC 12, 2012 @ 12:11 PM

The Sinaloa cartel commits unspeakable violence in Mexico and for years banked at HSBC. Together with Columbian drug traffickers, Sinaloa thugs moved $881 million through HSBC between 2006 and 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice said yesterday. But the market doesn’t seem to care.

This week the U.S. government announced that HSBC would be paying $1.9 billion to settle severe money laundering problems at the bank, including illicit transactions involving drug dealers and Iran. The big European bank signed a deferred prosecution agreement and got hit with some pretty horrible headlines. The New York Times editorial page lamented that HSBC was “too big to indict,” calling it “a dark day for the rule of law.”

HSBC’s stock price spiked up, which is not a surprise because the bank’s stock has been largely unaffected by the biggest money laundering forfeiture in banking history. Amid the disclosure of trillions of dollars in wire transfers that the bank did not monitor and hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty money that moved through it, HSBC is having a great year. The bank’s stock is up 31% in 2012. The drop in the stock price that hit its shares after the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations first aired HSBC’s dirty laundry in July turned out to be a very temporary bump in the road....

Full article:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/12/12/forget-the-drug-dealers-and-iran-hsbc-is-having-a-great-year/

[lunatica]

2. He sure did a hell of a lot of digging in one year!!!!

It took Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption 20 years! And the mile long tunnel he used was already built!

[underpants]

4. Probably had help from those ISIS folks

According to Fox News

[Takket]

3. oh, I'm sure he had NO help from the inside to make this happen.