CBS/AP: Responding to what was seen as one of the biggest embarrassments of his administration - Guzman's July 11 escape through a tunnel from Mexico's highest-security prison - Pena Nieto wrote in his Twitter account on Friday: "mission accomplished: we have him."
Benjamin Bergman, a spokesman for the Mexican marines, said El Chapo was rearrested after a shootout with Mexican marines in the city of Los Mochis, in Guzman's home state of Sinaloa early Friday. He said Guzman was in "good condition."
Five people have been killed and one Mexican marine wounded in the clash. The Mexican Navy said in a statement that marines acting on a tip raided a home in the town of Los Mochis before dawn. They were fired on from inside the structure. Five suspects were killed and six others arrested. The marine's injuries were not life threatening. 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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Aug 19, 2015
Recriminations Over El Chapo's Escape Cast Pall Over U.S.-Mexico Ties
El Universal (Translated by WorldMeets): Since escaping from the "maximum security" prison in Altiplano, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman has managed to strain relations between Mexico and the United States.
Migration, of course, is not being affected, nor is the billions of dollars in daily bilateral trade. Those are running in the other direction.
But meetings between officials from both countries have been marked by a more prickly tone than usual. Hints of suspicion and mistrust and mutual recriminations have appeared during rounds of talks about which only the noblest face has been publicly reported: two countries cooperating on the intelligence to capture the world's most powerful kingpin. Read more.
Migration, of course, is not being affected, nor is the billions of dollars in daily bilateral trade. Those are running in the other direction.
But meetings between officials from both countries have been marked by a more prickly tone than usual. Hints of suspicion and mistrust and mutual recriminations have appeared during rounds of talks about which only the noblest face has been publicly reported: two countries cooperating on the intelligence to capture the world's most powerful kingpin. Read more.
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