The astonishing escape of El Chapo

The daring escape of the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo has come as an embarrassment to President Enrique Peña Nieto.

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We've had plenty of blow-by-blow accounts of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's astonishing escape from a squalid cell in a Mexican jail, but it remains a mystery. The prison that held the drug baron at Santa Juana, 55 miles west of Mexico City is a fearsome place: 3ft thick walls, floodlights, razor wire, watchtowers, deep trenches, a no-fly zone above. Even radio waves are blocked within asix-mile radius, rendering mobile phones useless.

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