STEVE MCQUEEN could not have done it better. Joaquín “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzmán, Mexico's most notorious drug trafficker and boss of the Sinaloa drug gang, escaped from Mexico’s highest-security prison on July 11th through a tunnel longer than 1.5km (one mile), and may have used a motorcycle to make his second spectacular jailbreak in almost 15 years. His escape is a serious embarrassment for President Enrique Peña Nieto, who was en route to Paris with his most senior cabinet members for an official visit to France. It is bound to complicate anti-drug co-operation with the United States, which had wanted to Mexico to extradite the drug lord.
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