Forbes Billionaire Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, known as El Chapo or “Shorty”, has escaped from a maximum security prison for a second time.
Guzman was last seen in the showers of the Altiplano jail late on Saturday night. Now, he is nowhere to be found.
He was the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, which controls much of the flow of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine to the US.
El Chapo’s escape was discovered when officers checked his cell in the maximum security Altiplano prison, which is near Mexico City.
A search operation has been launched and flights have been suspended at a nearby Toluca airport.
El Chapo was arrested in Guatemala in 1993, but escaped from a Mexican high-security prison in 2001, hiding in a laundry basket after bribing prison officials.
The US has indicted him on federal drug trafficking charges. However, Mexico refuses to extradite him to the U.S. – because El Chapo is too big to jail.
El Chapo is too rich and the Mexican authorities are too corrupt to keep him in prison.
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