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0:00this is Puente Grande prison the most
0:02fortified prison in Mexico it's known
0:05for the large number of guards two
0:07guards for each inmate because the
0:10prison was dedicated to the most
0:11dangerous criminals in Mexico on top of
0:14them were drug gang leaders these are
0:17not ordinary criminals these are the
0:19leaders of tens of thousands of armies
0:22and followers heavily armed with all
0:24imaginable weapons so attacking the
0:26prison suddenly is always expected
0:29therefore the prison walls were doubly
0:32fortified with heavy concrete reinforced
0:35with the strongest type of Steel
0:36watchtowers heavily armed guards and
0:40checkpoints along the road to the prison
0:42the prison was like a military base
0:45this was the prison where El Chapo was
0:48imprisoned the most famous and dangerous
0:50drug lord in Mexican history and
0:52worldwide he is the Sinaloa cartel
0:55leader The Most Dangerous Drug gang in
0:57the world it was named after the Sinaloa
1:00state where they came from El Chapo had
1:02been pursued for a long time and was
1:05arrested for the first time in 1993
1:07after a heavy chase by the Mexican
1:09authorities although El Chapo was
1:12arrested this didn't prevent him from
1:14running his Empire from inside the
1:16prison he did it through bribery he
1:19bribed every single officer and guard in
1:22prison with bribes worth millions which
1:24granted him Comfort he lived the Cane's
1:27life in prison they got him alcohol
1:29women and all the food he wanted they
1:33even used to allow his two wives and his
1:35Mistresses to visit him and with him for
1:38days moreover he had Foams to keep
1:41running his gang from inside the prison
1:43the person who facilitated El Chapo's
1:46life most inside the prison was this man
1:48damaso Lopez damaso was Deputy Chief of
1:52security at Puente Grande prison
1:54El Chapo bribed this man to the point
1:57that he became his right hand he gave
1:59him a house a car gifts and a huge
2:03salary this strengthened their
2:05relationship and they became friends so
2:08damaso was the main reason El Chapo was
2:10at a complete Comfort level inside
2:12prison to the extent that he could do
2:14whatever he wanted
2:16El Chapo during his imprisonment period
2:19was not only able to run his gang but he
2:22was also able to develop a new way for
2:24drug trafficking from inside the prison
2:26this way wasn't his creation but he and
2:30his gang made a revolution in it which
2:32is drug trafficking through tunnels El
2:35Chapo hired Engineers Architects and
2:38Specialists to dig tunnels at a
2:40professional level
2:41certainly El Chapo through this tunnel
2:44was targeting the U.S it was the most
2:47profitable place for them El Chapo and
2:50his gang Sinaloa cartel didn't need to
2:53smuggle drugs anymore neither by air sea
2:56or land
2:57they became Smugglers through
2:59underground tunnels which enabled them
3:01to raise the rate of smuggling insanely
3:03they began to make 20 million dollars
3:06per month
3:07imagine that El Chapo's Empire was
3:10expanded and grew while he was in prison
3:12more than the time he was out Mexico
3:14didn't extradite drug gang leaders like
3:16El Chapo to the U.S which was always
3:19calling for this because they were the
3:22ones most affected a huge quantity of
3:24drugs had been smuggled to the U.S so
3:27they were always asking for El Chapo's
3:29extradition and criminals like him since
3:31U.S prisons are more fortified than
3:34Mexico's besides they would be far away
3:37from their gangs and the officers they
3:39bribed so that they would no longer have
3:41any control over their gangs but the
3:44Mexican authorities were refusing such
3:46claiming that they were able to handle
3:47their criminals this made El Chapo
3:50relieved seeing that he was doing
3:52whatever he wanted in Puente Grande
3:54prison he had never thought about a
3:56breakout however in 2001 the Mexican
4:00Supreme Court submitted a proposal to
4:03create a new law that would allow the
4:05extradition of some Mexican criminals to
4:07America El Chapo felt in danger when he
4:10first heard about the new law of Mexican
4:12criminal extradition so he immediately
4:14started planning an escape which must be
4:17carried out as soon as possible a few
4:19weeks later El Chapo had already
4:22formulated his solid plan and began to
4:24carry it out El Chapo was already aware
4:27that only a few people should be
4:29involved in the plan so he gave a huge
4:32bribe to his assistant demaso and
4:34explicitly told him that he wanted to
4:36escape damaso replied and assured him
4:39that he would help him El Chapo agreed
4:41with his friend damaso to reduce the
4:43number of guards on January 19
4:462001 which was the day El Chapo planned
4:50to escape of course demosa would not
4:53reduce the number of guards in the
4:54entire prison but rather in the section
4:57where El Chapo was El Chapo also bribed
5:00one of the prison workers named Chito
5:02this was one of the workers responsible
5:05for the laundry his main task was to
5:07take the dirty clothes from the inmates
5:09and put them inside a cart that he took
5:11outside the prison and placed in a van
5:14that would take it to the laundry
5:15facility Cheeto was the best choice for
5:18El Chapo because he was a normal worker
5:20out of sight he only did his usual daily
5:23tasks and none of the guards cared about
5:26him
5:27day had come on January 19
5:312001 Cheeto opened El Chapo's cell
5:34helped him get into the laundry cart
5:37cover him with clothes and push the cart
5:39they were able to do all of this
5:42comfortably due to the low number of
5:43guards in that section
5:45in one moment while Cheeto was pushing
5:48the cart he reached one of the prison
5:50Gates where there was a guard Cheeto
5:52stopped the cart and left it to talk
5:54with the guard and asked him to open the
5:57gate but due to El Chapo's weight the
6:00cart began to move backward on its own
6:03at that moment El Chapo was scared that
6:06the cart would hit the wall flip over
6:08and he would fall out and then they
6:10would be exposed but his friend chido
6:13quickly rushed and ran behind the cart
6:15and held it before hitting the wall he
6:18moved on his way normally to the prison
6:20parking lots where a car was waiting for
6:22them El Chapo immediately got into the
6:25trunk and they drove out of the prison
6:27by the way the car was driven by one of
6:30the brideguards for this reason when
6:33they went out of the prison exit gate no
6:35one stopped them or even searched the
6:37car
6:38they let them out immediately
6:41despite the Escape being quickly exposed
6:43the pursuit was delayed because the
6:46majority of the local police were in El
6:48Chapo's pocket they didn't make a move
6:50right away giving him the chance to go
6:53far away from the prison
6:55afterward the federal police got the
6:58news of El Chapo's escape and this
7:00police force is hard to bribe unlike the
7:03local police the federal forces began
7:06the pursuit while Lo Chapo's men were
7:08waiting for him somewhere near the
7:09prison
7:10when he reached them they changed his
7:13car and took him in an armored car to
7:15another place where a helicopter was
7:17waiting for them he got in the
7:19helicopter and they took him to another
7:21location where another armored car was
7:24waiting
7:24they moved him to four different
7:26locations so that he couldn't be tracked
7:29the last car El Chapo took was in Mexico
7:32City while they were driving in the
7:34streets El Chapo took a look around him
7:37to find out that he was surrounded by
7:38police cars and motorcycles he was so
7:41stressed and worried that he asked the
7:43driver about how they managed to track
7:45his location
7:46the driver reassured him that he had
7:48nothing to worry about because all of
7:51the police were actually there for his
7:52protection
7:54El Chapo took a deep breath and felt
7:56relieved
7:57the corrupt police were surrounding him
7:59so that the real police couldn't reach
8:01him no one would ever expect that El
8:04Chapo would be escorted by that many
8:06police cars
8:07they went alongside him until they
8:09reached one of the gang's safe houses El
8:12Chapo's breakout in 2001 had made him a
8:15legend to the point that most people
8:17began to think that he was above the law
8:19and Untouchable although the Mexican
8:21authorities devoted considerable
8:23resources to the pursuit of El Chapo
8:26they were unable to reach him and El
8:28Chapo remained free for 14 years
8:31during these years El Chapo was moving
8:34between his secret safe houses many of
8:37which were in isolated areas in the
8:39mountains during these 14 years El
8:42Chapo's empire grew insanely he used to
8:45smuggle cocaine to America worth
8:47billions of dollars annually El Chapo's
8:50gang expansion and the areas they have
8:52taken control of in Mexico have reached
8:55an unprecedented level
8:57the Sinaloa cartel had become the
8:59largest drug cartel in the world
9:01uncontested to the extent that it was
9:04considered the largest in history
9:06surpassing the medal in cartel which was
9:09Escobar's cartel reaching this level of
9:12power influence and control is
9:15impossible without violence therefore
9:17acts of violence were insane especially
9:20in the northern cities of Mexico the
9:23cities that are bordered by America
9:24because they are used in drug
9:27trafficking so it was like a war El
9:29Chapo and his gang turned these cities
9:31into war zones causing a lot of
9:34unprecedented killings and mass
9:36destruction El Chapo managed to destroy
9:39all the gangs one after the other taking
9:41over the Northern areas this made him
9:44the largest and sole Dominator of the
9:46drug trafficking movement from Mexico to
9:48America the American and Mexican
9:50authorities wanted to arrest him at any
9:52cost and for this Mission they utilized
9:56all their most powerful resources in
9:582014 14 years after El Chapo's Escape
10:01Mexican intelligence with the help of
10:04its American counterpart decided to
10:07pursue a new strategy which was to track
10:09down the people around El Chapo his sons
10:12wives and Close Associates because they
10:16were the ones who knew El Chapo the most
10:19thanks to their new strategy they
10:21managed to reach El Chapo's technical
10:23assistant
10:24this young man was a Colombian in his
10:26twenties the intelligence managed to
10:29convince him to work for their benefit
10:30and with his assistance they were able
10:33to hack the encrypted communication
10:35Network used by El Chapo and his gang
10:38this way they managed to identify his
10:40location and know that he was in a house
10:43in Sinaloa which is the headquarters of
10:45the gang the house is one of El Chapo's
10:48safe houses they identify the House's
10:51location and exactly on February 17 2014
10:55the Mexican Special Forces along with
10:58DEA agents surrounded the house and
11:01stormed it the house wasn't ordinary
11:03Behind The house's main door there was
11:06another steel door the Special Forces
11:09kept beating this door trying to break
11:11it
11:12at the same time El Chapo was sleeping
11:15inside all of a sudden his assistant
11:18entered his room screaming and told him
11:20that the Mexican Army was at the door he
11:23jumped out of bed hearing the sounds of
11:25hitting on the steel door so he got up
11:27from his place and started to move the
11:30forces that were outside the house were
11:32able to see movements through Windows
11:34they saw that there were people moving
11:36inside so they intensified the beating
11:40on the door even more the windows were
11:42also fortified all the house was armored
11:45and due to the fact that the windows
11:47were small making it difficult to enter
11:49through them all their focus and efforts
11:52were on the door they kept beating the
11:54door until it was broken then they
11:57entered the house with their weapons
11:58raised ordering all the people that were
12:01inside to surrender and lie down on the
12:03ground
12:04however they were surprised when they
12:06found out that no one was inside the
12:08house they searched every single room
12:11and every corner of the house but no one
12:13was there although they saw Shadows
12:15moving inside the house when they were
12:17outside where did El Chapo go when his
12:21assistant entered the room to alert him
12:22El Chapo got up from his bed and went
12:25immediately to the bathroom not to hide
12:28but rather to escape through a tunnel El
12:31Chapo's Gang has become professional and
12:34has expertise in digging tunnels not
12:36only for drug smuggling but also for
12:39escaping all their safe houses had
12:41underground tunnels in case the house
12:43was surrounded by the police El Chapo
12:46would immediately run out of the house
12:48easily El Chapo managed to escape
12:50through a tunnel dug under the bathtub
12:53and this is a real image of the tunnel
12:55after it was discovered by the Mexican
12:57authorities the entrance of the tunnel
12:59was smartly designed so that no one
13:01would find out unless he knew about it
13:04to open the secret entrance a pin must
13:07be inserted into a small opening behind
13:09the bathroom mirror this would create an
13:12electric current that would unlock the
13:13lock holding the vafta then it must be
13:16lifted by hands the bathtub would raise
13:19easily thanks to the hydraulic arms that
13:21supported from underneath when El Chapo
13:24entered the tunnel he pulled the bathtub
13:26out and closed it behind him
13:29for this reason the storming forces took
13:32their time searching the house until
13:33discovering the secret entrance El Chapo
13:36managed to escape with his wife his
13:39assistant and his Chef through the
13:41tunnel and by the time the Special
13:43Forces found out about the tunnel
13:45entrance El Chapo and those with him had
13:47already vanished El Chapo decided to go
13:50to a normal place a place where nobody
13:52would think he would be there instead of
13:55going to one of his isolated safe houses
13:57he went to a coastal city named mezatlin
14:00it is a touristic City and no one would
14:03expect that he might be there but what
14:06El Chapo didn't know was that his
14:08communication network was hacked he
14:10fought the Mexican authorities found his
14:12safe house from where he escaped by
14:14coincidence but he didn't know that they
14:17might find him wherever he went five
14:19days after he escaped from the safe
14:21house exactly on February 22 2014 the
14:26Mexican authorities along with the
14:28American agency El Chapo's location in
14:31one of the city hotels named Miramar
14:34where they managed to surround him and
14:36arrest him easily in his room
14:38the attached image is a real picture of
14:40him at the moment of his arrest
14:43he had no protection or guards and he
14:45didn't expect they would easily identify
14:48his location because he basically didn't
14:50know how they were tracking him or that
14:52his phone was hacked after El Chapo's
14:54second arrest they took him to altaplano
14:57prison which is a Maximum Security
14:59Prison and the most fortified prison in
15:02Mexico
15:03you may be wondering why they didn't
15:04take him to this prison the first time
15:07for the simple reason that El Chapo's
15:09first arrest was in 1993. alteplano
15:13prison was just established at that time
15:15and it wasn't as fortified as it was in
15:182014 when El Chapo was arrested for the
15:21second time
15:22this prison was like a military base due
15:25to the abundance of guards weapons and
15:28equipment within it the outer wall is
15:31surrounded by a large number of
15:32watchtowers and each Tower is manned by
15:35three or four armed guards carrying
15:37heavy weapons although the prison walls
15:40are nets they are doubled in two layers
15:42and sometimes in three layers in certain
15:45prison areas this net fence is
15:47constructed and reinforced by heavy
15:49concrete with a full meter of thickness
15:52there were even ditches all these
15:54fortifications were to prevent any
15:57external attack
15:58as we mentioned before the imprisoned
16:00criminals had special armies so they had
16:03to be ready for any external attack they
16:06even have armored vehicles in the prison
16:08in addition to the fact that the entire
16:10prison area is a no-fly zone there are
16:13sources that say that they have
16:15anti-aircraft weapons in anticipation of
16:17any air attacks not to mention the
16:20broken communication networks in the
16:22entire prison area which means that all
16:25mobile phones wouldn't work inside the
16:27prison and the most important thing is
16:30that the officers and guards in this
16:31prison are carefully hired to prevent
16:34all sorts of bribery although the prison
16:36had the biggest criminals and gang
16:38leaders in Mexico none of them managed
16:41to escape until the arrival of El Chapo
16:44as soon as El Chapo entered the prison
16:46he began to think about an escape plan
16:49because he was afraid of being
16:51extradited to America at any moment
16:53since the mobile phones were not working
16:55inside the prison the only way he had to
16:58communicate with the outside world was
17:00through the people that were allowed to
17:02visit him in prison which were actually
17:04two people
17:06the first was his lawyer scar Lopez and
17:09the second was his third wife EMA
17:11Cornell his young wife whom he married
17:14in 2007 and she was 32 years younger
17:18than him
17:19El Chapo began coordinating with his
17:22wife so that she could convey his
17:24messages to his children and followers
17:26his four children were all leaders in
17:28his gang but after his imprisonment no
17:31one of them took the leadership of the
17:33Gang
17:34El Chapo had another man who wasn't a
17:36family member he considered him his
17:38right hand this man was damaso Lopez the
17:42deputy chief of security in Punta Grande
17:44prison and the corrupt official who
17:46allowed El Chapo to do whatever he
17:49wanted in that prison
17:50after El Chapo's Escape in 2001 demaso
17:54was blamed and considered an accomplice
17:57so he was fired and couldn't find a job
18:00as it was mentioned before damaso and El
18:03Chapo were friends which is why El Chapo
18:06asked him to join the Gang over the
18:09years damaso kept getting promoted until
18:12he became El Chapo's right hand in the
18:14gang and the leader of the gang after El
18:17Chapo's second imprisonment damaso
18:20turned from a prison security official
18:21to the leader of the world's most
18:23powerful drug cartel
18:25now El Chapo began to communicate with
18:28his right hand damaso and his children
18:30from inside the prison through his wife
18:32and started moving them so they could
18:35get him out of prison as soon as
18:37possible before his extradition to
18:38America he was really scared of this
18:41damaso and El Chapo's children started
18:44putting together a plan to get their
18:46leader out of prison since damaso was an
18:49ex-security official in one of the most
18:51fortified prisons in Mexico this gives
18:54him an advantage in planning because he
18:56knows the security system in prisons on
18:59the other side El Chapo inside the
19:02prison spent most of his time in his
19:04cell he was only allowed to go out for
19:06one hour a day
19:08there was also a GPS tracker attached to
19:11his ankle all the time his cell was
19:13under 24-hour surveillance there were
19:16cameras inside his cell and the shower
19:18was behind that small wall just to give
19:20him some privacy El Chapo knew that it
19:23was almost impossible to escape from
19:25this prison but he was persistent in
19:28doing it at any cost and since we are
19:30talking about El Chapo and his gang it
19:33is obvious that a tunnel would be
19:34included in the plan but how would they
19:37dig it and from where would it be duck
19:40beginning of the digging wouldn't be
19:42from inside the prison the tunnel must
19:45be dug outside the prison leading inside
19:47the prison
19:48this may be the first time in history we
19:51always hear about prisoners digging a
19:53tunnel to escape from prison but a
19:55prisoner and his followers digging a
19:57tunnel for him from outside the prison
19:59is almost impossible the plan's first
20:02step is to buy a piece of land or
20:04property close enough to the prison that
20:06they could dig a tunnel that leads to
20:08the prison but at the same time it
20:11shouldn't be closed in a way that
20:12attracts attention
20:14the problem was that alteplano prison
20:16was located in an isolated area and
20:19surrounded by large agricultural areas
20:22the prison was a huge facility in the
20:24middle of a vast area of agricultural
20:26land with no buildings around
20:28after a tiring search El Chapo's gang
20:32managed to find an empty construction
20:33site about a kilometer and a half from
20:36the prison
20:37it was most likely used by Farmers it
20:40was like an uncompleted building
20:42the gang bought this land and registered
20:45it in the name of a person who was not
20:47suspicious the land became theirs and
20:50they now had a starting point from which
20:52they could begin digging but it's not
20:54that simple how would they know El
20:56Chapo's cell exactly besides the cell is
21:00under heavy surveillance and even if
21:02they manage to dig the tunnel and reach
21:04the cell how would they get him out
21:06without being exposed the only blind
21:09spot is that small shower behind the
21:11small wall therefore the only place
21:14where the tunnel exit should be is that
21:16little shower Square about how how could
21:19they dig an underground tunnel from
21:21outside the prison with almost a
21:23kilometer and a half in length without
21:25seeing anything and open and opening
21:27specifically in that small place the
21:30plan seems impossible reaching the cell
21:32itself is a great achievement let alone
21:35reaching that particular small spot to
21:38solve this problem El Chapo got a
21:40brilliant idea that would help his men
21:42identify his cell location and exactly
21:45that small space behind the wall the
21:48idea was inspired by the GPS tracker
21:50that was on his ankle the idea was
21:53simply to smuggle a GPS to him which he
21:56would put in that shower space so the
21:58men digging the tunnel could easily
22:00identify the exact location the idea was
22:03perfect but the problem was smuggling
22:05the GPS device
22:07Alta Plano was the most fortified prison
22:10in Mexico and smuggling anything inside
22:12the prison was almost impossible
22:15there were many checkpoints inside and
22:17outside the prison that must be crossed
22:20without being exposed and they wouldn't
22:22allow the passage of any tool that might
22:24be used to escape or as a weapon El
22:27Chapo got another smart idea he asked
22:30his wife to tell the gang to insert the
22:32small GPS device in a watch
22:34this way it could cross all the
22:37checkpoints normally his wife managed to
22:39smuggle the watch to him easily no one
22:42suspected her it was just a normal watch
22:45that wouldn't pose any danger or rather
22:47that's what the guards thought
22:50through that watch and the GPS device El
22:53Chapo's men managed to identify the
22:55exact location of that particular spot
22:57behind that small Wall El Chapo's men
23:00had already started the digging process
23:02towards the prison but when they got the
23:05exact location they knew how to point
23:07the digging 100 percent in the right
23:09direction
23:10as we mentioned before they were experts
23:13in digging tunnels so the tunnel they
23:15dug was astonishing and professional
23:17engineering work at all levels the
23:20entrance to the tunnel began at the
23:21building
23:22by taking a look at the tunnel opening
23:24you can see a colossal number of wooden
23:27supports then once you enter the 10
23:30meter deep tunnel you will realize that
23:32the tunnel wasn't just an ordinary
23:34Escape tunnel it was meticulously built
23:37and undoubtedly the best escape tunnel
23:39ever built in prison breakout history
23:41such a tunnel required a lot of workers
23:43there were most likely 10 to 12 people
23:46working non-stop on that tunnel first
23:49they needed a ventilation system so they
23:52laid ventilation pipes along the
23:54kilometer they dug and an air pumping
23:56machine was at the entrance of the
23:58tunnel they also needed lighting they
24:01hung thousands of light bulbs along the
24:03tunnel and an electricity generator was
24:06also at the entrance of the tunnel it
24:08was hidden and they made it look like a
24:11cement grilling table they had hidden
24:13everything nothing was exposed or
24:15visible from outside the brick building
24:18this was necessary in case the security
24:20or guard suddenly searched they wouldn't
24:23discover what was happening below unless
24:25they conducted a thorough inspection
24:27this was crucial because they were
24:29located somewhat close to the prison the
24:32scale of this operation was insane
24:34thousands of meters of ventilation pipes
24:37thousands of lamps and tons of sand were
24:40extracted from underground they took
24:43them out and disposed of them without
24:44being exposed especially since they were
24:47a kilometer and a half away from the
24:49prison
24:50and the ground was flat and empty so it
24:53is strange that none of the guards
24:54especially those on the watchtowers had
24:57noticed them this proves that El Chapo's
25:00gang meticulously planned for this
25:02operation and had taken all their
25:04precautions moreover inside the tunnel
25:07they had also made a railroad on which
25:10they placed a customized excavation cart
25:12that seemed like it was integrated with
25:14a motorcycle by which they were
25:16intending to transport the sand and
25:19later on to help their leader Escape
25:20throughout the digging process El Chapo
25:24was nervous and anxious he was afraid of
25:27his extradition to America for this
25:29reason he was always sending letters to
25:32his men asking about why the process was
25:34taking so long
25:35and they were always replying that the
25:37matter wasn't that simple it required
25:40planning and effort and they should be
25:42meticulous in what they were doing
25:43finally in June 2015 El Chapo received
25:47news from his men that the tunnel was
25:49almost ready El Chapo chose the 4th of
25:52July 2015 as the day of his Escape why
25:56the 4th of July
25:58because he wanted to insult America July
26:004th is a national day in America it is
26:03the anniversary of Independence Day it
26:06was a big day for the Americans by this
26:09act he intended to send an insulting
26:11message to them he wanted to tell them
26:14that he managed to escape on the day of
26:16their Joy El Chapo had a huge hatred for
26:19America although all his money was from
26:21there he knew how badly they wanted him
26:24and he knew that the American
26:26authorities were always asking the
26:28Mexican authorities for his extradition
26:30unfortunately his men didn't manage to
26:33make it
26:34the tunnel still needed work so they
26:37were forced to postpone the operation to
26:39a week later
26:40finally the big day had come the day of
26:43El Chapo's escape on July 11 2015 the
26:48day on which El Chapo would break out of
26:51the prison where he spent almost 16
26:53months this video footage is from the
26:56surveillance cameras that were in his
26:57cell on that night El Chapo was watching
27:01a comedy series on his small tablet with
27:03the volume up attempting to conceal the
27:06sounds that his men were making while
27:08trying to open the hole each time he got
27:11up from his place and walked around the
27:13room waiting for a signal from his men
27:16at 8 10 El Chapo sat on the edge of his
27:20bed put his shoes on and went to the
27:22shower space the only hidden place from
27:25the surveillance cameras in the whole
27:27cell since that time El Chapo has
27:30vanished El Chapo entered the opening
27:32and went down through a ladder to the
27:34underground tunnel where he met with his
27:36wife's brother who pointed him to the
27:39cart and asked him to get on it El Chapo
27:42got on the card and drove it as fast as
27:44possible along the tunnel when he
27:47reached the other side of the tunnel he
27:49went up to the brick building where a
27:50quad bike was waiting for him he rode it
27:53with one of his men and went on the
27:55other side the guards in the prison took
27:5840 minutes to discover the Escape they
28:00noticed on the surveillance cameras that
28:02El Chapo wasn't in his cell they went
28:05immediately to check on him
28:07at first they thought that he might be
28:09hiding behind that shower wall but they
28:12were shocked when they found the opening
28:14of the tunnel the sirens immediately
28:16blared declaring a state of alert but it
28:19was too late by that time
28:22El Chapo had already traveled a long
28:24distance he then arrived at a big truck
28:27got into the truck trailer and his men
28:29tightly closed it so as not to be seen
28:32then the truck drove for approximately
28:35two hours until it arrived at a town
28:37named San Juan which is located in an
28:40area called coratero El Chapo then got
28:43on a private jet whose pilot was one of
28:45the most trusted by El Chapo in his
28:47whole gang this time El Chapo took all
28:51necessary precautions not leaving
28:53anything to chance there were two Jets
28:56the first would take El Chapo to his
28:58destination and the second would fly to
29:01mislead everyone that might be pursuing
29:03him El Chapo decided to go hide in one
29:06of his safe houses it was like a castle
29:08that is located in the mountains in
29:10Sinaloa it was the most fortified and
29:13safest place for El Chapo which they
29:16used to call the sky El Chapo's Escape
29:19caused Great embarrassment to the
29:21Mexican authorities because just a year
29:23ago they boasted of his arrest in front
29:26of the world considering it the greatest
29:28achievement in the war against drugs and
29:31crime the Mexican authorities have
29:33harnessed a large part of their forces
29:35and resources to hunt down El Chapo at
29:38any cost if only El Chapo had kept
29:40hiding in his secret houses in the
29:42mountains it would have been difficult
29:44for the authorities to track him but El
29:46Chapo kept moving from one city to
29:49another visiting his gang headquarters
29:51meeting his followers and giving them
29:54orders this was very important to
29:56maintain his control and Leadership over
29:58the gang but it put him in danger and
30:01made his tracking easier especially
30:04since the Mexican authorities were
30:05supported by the Americans they fully
30:08cooperated in El Chapo's case the
30:10American authorities provided the
30:12Mexicans with all sorts of newly
30:14developed Technologies for tracking and
30:16monitoring
30:17the Mexican intelligence with the help
30:19of the Americans managed to locate a
30:22house in Los moches which is a city in
30:25the north of Sinaloa state
30:27in this house the intelligence team
30:29noticed that there was a movement by El
30:31Chapo's gang
30:33they started eavesdropping on them and
30:36noticed that they used the nickname
30:37Grandma to refer to a specific person
30:40for example they say Grand mud is coming
30:44prepare yourself for Grandma it clear
30:47that they met a particular person by
30:49this nickname that seemed important and
30:52the intelligence team suspected that it
30:54might be El Chapo himself indeed the
30:57next day a convoy of three cars arrived
31:00so it was clear that this Convoy was for
31:03an important person the first time the
31:05cars arrived they entered the garage
31:07directly and the agents who were
31:10monitoring the place could not identify
31:12the person who was inside the car so the
31:14Mexican intelligence kept eavesdropping
31:16on their calls and monitoring the house
31:19for a period
31:20during which they became almost sure
31:22that El Chapo was inside the house this
31:26was confirmed after hearing his voice or
31:28what appeared to be his voice through
31:30eavesdropping on their calls besides the
31:33fact that such preparations and
31:34protection wouldn't be for someone else
31:36but El Chapo on the morning of January 8
31:402016 six months after El Chapo's escape
31:44the Mexican forces decided to Storm the
31:47House a group of Special Forces
31:49surrounded the place backed by DEA
31:52agents and stormed the house
31:54then a bloody armed conflict occurred
31:57between them and El Chapo's followers it
32:00was violent and all its victims were
32:02among the Gang
32:04as for the Special Forces some of them
32:06were injured but nobody died because of
32:09their meticulous and well-prepared
32:11attack
32:12after the fight had ended they didn't
32:14find El Chapo he escaped for the second
32:17time through an underground tunnel
32:19this mirror was a secret door that led
32:22to the underground tunnel
32:24El Chapo escaped through the tunnel
32:26while his followers were fighting
32:27against the Special Forces he escaped
32:30with one of his close assistants when
32:32they came out of the tunnel they stole a
32:35car that was passing on the street the
32:37security forces weren't only surrounding
32:39the house they were spread out in the
32:42whole area when they received the news
32:44of El Chapo's Escape patrols started
32:47roaming the area right away
32:49about 20 kilometers away from the house
32:51at one of the checkpoints four federal
32:54police officers managed to arrest El
32:57Chapo and his assistant El Chapo right
33:00away attempted to bribe them but
33:02unfortunately for him they weren't
33:03corrupt officers and they refused his
33:06bride this prompted him to get angry and
33:09start acting insanely he began to insult
33:12and threaten them however the officers
33:15disregarded his threats took a picture
33:17of him and sent it to their commander
33:20who told them that special forces were
33:22on their way to them and warned them
33:24that El Chapo's men and Associates were
33:27preparing for an attack by mobilizing
33:29all their forces to rescue their leader
33:31he also ordered them to take shelter in
33:34a nearby motel and get prepared for any
33:37sudden potential attack from El Chapo's
33:39gang the four officers and El Chapo took
33:42one of the motel rooms where they waited
33:44and monitored the situation
33:46after a short while they began to hear
33:49the sounds of cars approaching from a
33:51distance as if it were a large
33:53procession moving slowly towards them at
33:56that moment El Chapo smirk maliciously
33:59and said to the police now you probably
34:01wish you had accepted my offer however
34:04his smile quickly turned into a look of
34:07shock and despair as the procession of
34:09cars arrived and he realized that those
34:12were not his men but a massive number of
34:14soldiers from the Army and Special
34:16Forces
34:17they had surrounded the hotel
34:19and quickly secured all entrances and
34:21exits El Chapo's men were taken aback
34:24they couldn't even contemplate getting
34:26closer to the hotel once they saw the
34:29heavy presence of security forces in the
34:31area
34:32El Chapo was arrested for the third time
34:34and sent to altaplano prison again
34:37the prison from which he escaped the
34:39last time
34:40but this time El Chapo was under heavy
34:43surveillance nevertheless imagine that
34:46he began to look for another way out and
34:49started to plan for an escape operation
34:51he sent messages to his gang asking them
34:53to do it again
34:55According to some of El Chapo's gang
34:57members they had really started working
34:59on a new Escape operation and what made
35:02it weird was that they were planning to
35:04do it the same way
35:05the Mexican authorities were already
35:07working on his extradition procedures to
35:10America they had come to believe that
35:12this was the only solution El Chapo
35:15escaped from Puente Grande in 2001.
35:19had remained a fugitive for 14 years he
35:22also escaped through a tunnel beneath
35:24the bathtub when they surrounded him in
35:26one of his safe houses he also escaped
35:29from altaplano prison the most fortified
35:32prison in Mexico and escaped for the
35:35fourth time through the tunnel behind
35:36the mirror in another Safe House
35:39how long will they keep chasing him if
35:41he stays in Mexico he will surely find a
35:44way to escape because all of his men and
35:46followers are around him but in the U.S
35:49he would no longer be able to do
35:51anything
35:52for this reason the court was Expediting
35:55his extradition procedures imagine that
35:58the judge who was working on his
35:59extradition file had been assassinated
36:01in October 2016. El Chapo's extradition
36:04to America had been postponed to a year
36:07later but eventually one day in January
36:102017 El Chapo was surprised when the
36:14guards and soldiers entered his cell tie
36:16him up and took him to a helicopter that
36:19was in the prison yard he was then taken
36:21to a special plane and he hadn't
36:24realized what was going on yet the plane
36:26landed in New York and El Chapo got off
36:29the plane trying to comprehend what was
36:32happening he was confused looking around
36:35to the right and left
36:36El Chapo asked one of the DEA agents
36:39where am I
36:40the agent replied you are in New York
36:44and this is a picture of the most
36:46powerful drug gang leader in history
36:48with tears in his eyes his a historical
36:51scene El Chapo was tried in the U.S
36:55trial lasted for a long period during
36:57which many details Witnesses and
37:00testimonies emerge eventually in 2019 El
37:04Chapo was sentenced to life imprisonment
37:06plus 30 years currently El Chapo is in a
37:10prison named adx or Florence supermax it
37:14is a prison located in Colorado USA this
37:17prison is considered the most powerful
37:19and secure prison in America it houses
37:22inmates deemed extremely dangerous even
37:24to other prisoners which means that all
37:27the inmates are kept in solitary
37:29confinement and even their interaction
37:31with the guards is limited
37:33El Chapo spends 23 hours a day in his
37:36cell and he is only allowed to go out
37:38for one hour to indoor places in prison
37:41under strict and heavy surveillance I am
37:43pretty sure that El Chapo considered
37:45escaping many times but I strongly
37:48believe that he has tears in his eyes
37:50when he realizes that he is far away
37:52from all his power and influence
37:55we have reached the end of our story
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