GlobalPost: "Mexican authorities came extremely close to capturing the world's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at a coastal mansion in Los Cabos, according to an Associated Press exclusive.
Guzman has a romantic back story buoyed by his infamous escape in a laundry truck from a maximum-security prison in 2001. He was recently named by US authorities as the "world's most powerful drug trafficker," and has a $7 million bounty on his head.
Mexico's Assistant Attorney General Jose Cuitlahuac Salinas confirmed that authorities came close to Guzman in late February, just after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the town located on the Baja peninsula." read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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