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According to media reports, six people alleged to have helped Sinaloa drug cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman break out of prison in July have been captured in Mexico.
Six people alleged to have helped Sinaloa drug cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman break out of prison in July have been captured in Mexico, The Guardian newspaper reported Thursday, citing officials."Today we are able to affirm that the group responsible for planning, organizing and carrying out the escape from outside the prison has been broken up," Attorney General Arely Gomez said, as cited by the media.
The suspects include a man considered to be the mastermind behind the escape, Guzman's brother-in-law and a member of his legal team, who had access to the prison, the media added.About 23 prison officials and employees have also been arrested under suspicion of involvement in the case and some face criminal charges, according to the media.
Guzman was arrested in 2014 after charges were officially brought against him, and was locked in Altiplano prison near Mexico City. The drug smuggler escaped July 11, 2015, after a tunnel was dug under his cell.
Comment: People alleged to have helped Guzman escape are captured, but it's not like the authorities are looking too hard for him. After all, the War on Drugs is as farcical as the War on Terror:
Omnipresent and all-too-powerful, the cartels' influence reaches very high. Generals, judges and high-ranking officers are in their pockets. An effective narco-state, in Mexico everyone who is anyone has been bought, and whoever tries to expose them is killed. Every year, dozens of journalists learn the hard way that exposing government/cartel corruption is not tolerated.
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But this rags-to-riches entrepreneurial 'success story', touted mainly by the corporate media and successive Mexican governments, only goes so far in explaining how this lurid state of affairs came about. On their way to becoming multinational operators, the cartels had the help of the self-styled 'masters of the universe' in Wall Street and the CIA. Without their involvement they could never have 'made it'. High-level US involvement was present throughout the cartels' rise. Long before the cartels came on the scene, these usual suspects were already long in the game. In a very real way, the cartels are merely the Latin American arm of a very North American business.
El Chapo Guzmán, Washington's Drug Problem, and the North American Police State
Comment: People alleged to have helped Guzman escape are captured, but it's not like the authorities are looking too hard for him. After all, the War on Drugs is as farcical as the War on Terror: