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[h=4]Mexico: Injured drug lord 'El Chapo' on the run[/h]Authorities confirm Joaquin Guzman fled recent operation to capture him.
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Mexican officials say escaped drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman suffered multiple injuries after authorities attempted to recapture him.
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A T-shirt of fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman covers a mannequin representing Jesus Malverde, known in Mexico as the "Saint" of drug traffickers, inside the shrine of a faith healer in Mexico City.(Photo: Eduardo Verdugo, AP)
Joaquin "El Chapo"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Guzman, the elusive Mexican drug kingpin who escaped from a high security prison in July, was injured in his leg and face during a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"headlong<span style="color: Red;">*</span>flight" as authorities recently closed in on his mountain hideout, Mexico's National Security Cabinet confirmed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in a statement late Friday.
The government<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Guzman was not wounded in a direct confrontation with law enforcement agencies but during a hasty retreat<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as Mexican Marines moved to surround his location. Guzman is known by the nickname<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"El Chapo" or, in English, "Shorty."
The brief statement came in response to a report from<span style="color: Red;">*</span>NBC News that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Guzman he had been hurt while evading capture<span style="color: Red;">*</span>last week.
The statement by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Mexico’s security Cabinet provided no details on when or exactly where the operation took place. It<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said only that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>information-sharing with international agencies had led authorities to zero in on Guzman in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>northwestern Mexico.
"As a result of these actions, and to avoid his capture, in recent days, the fugitive engaged in a hasty retreat, which, according to the information received, caused him injuries to one leg and the face," the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>statement said.
"It's important to clarify that these injuries were not a product of a direct clash," the statement added, without elaboration.
NBC, quoting three sources with knowledge of the operation, reported that an operation by Mexican Marines was mounted after<span style="color: Red;">*</span>U.S. drug agents intercepted cell phone signals suggesting he was hiding at a ranch<span style="color: Red;">*</span>near Cosala in the Sierra Madre mountains.
NBC's Mark Potter reported that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Marines raided Guzman's ranch hideout in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>helicopters, but were driven back by Guzman's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>security forces. The Marines later entered the camp on foot, NBC News reported, and found<span style="color: Red;">*</span>cell phones, medication and two-way radios. Guzman and his accomplices<span style="color: Red;">*</span>apparently fled on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>ATVs.
On Thursday, Sinaloa Governor Mario López Valdez and military commander Gen. Alfonso Duarte Mujica confirmed that Guzman was the object of a major military operation that began last week, Mexico News Daily reports.
Guzman, who had already escaped from one maximum security prison in 2001,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>fled most recently on July 11 from another prison<span style="color: Red;">*</span>near Mexico City by escaping through an elaborate tunnel that ended beneath a shower stall in his cell.
Although authorities initially released surveillance camera video showing Guzman stepping behind a shower stall partition, blocked from view, in making his escape, it did not include any audio.
A leaked video recently<span style="color: Red;">*</span>aired by the broadcaster<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Televisa<span style="color: Red;">*</span>does<span style="color: Red;">*</span>include<span style="color: Red;">*</span>audio, notably<span style="color: Red;">*</span>loud noises at the time of the escape, but no reaction from guards, according to The newspaper<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Mexico<span style="color: Red;">*</span>News Daily<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reports.
For almost two hours before his escape, the video shows Guzman on his bed watching a video on a computer tablet with the volume cranked up, the newspaper reports.
At 8:46 a drill can be heard for almost six minutes over the sound from the tablet. At that point, he gets up and walks over to the shower area. “Boss?” comes a voice from the tunnel and Guzmán replies, “I’ll help you.”
He then bends over the in the shower area, which is blocked from the camera’s view, and apparently helps<span style="color: Red;">*</span>remove<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a piece of the concrete floor. Within a few moments he is gone.
The newspaper also notes that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>loud noises had been heard in the Altiplano<span style="color: Red;">*</span>prison for as a long as a week before the escape, but that some prisoners in that part of the penitentiary kept quiet<span style="color: Red;">*</span>because they had been threatened by prison officials.
Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez said at a Mexican Senate hearing this week that 24 people, all but one a government employee, had been arrested in connection with Guzman's escape. Those arrested include a pilot, she said, without elaborating.
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