Mexican Government Announces Reward for Guzman's Capture

The Mexican government published a picture of the escaped convict Joaquín Guzmán Loera on Monday, July 13, and announced a reward of up to 60 million pesos (US$3.8 million) for information assisting in his arrest. Guzman, a drug lord known as “El Chapo”, escaped from his cell in the Altiplano maximum security prison on Saturday via a 32-foot (ten-metre) deep tunnel that exited near a construction site 0.9 miles (1.5 kilometers) from the prison.

Mexico’s Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong also addressed the media on Monday, July 13, where he said Guzman “must have counted on the complicity of prison personnel … which, if confirmed, would constitute an act of treason.” (Translation via Associated Press) Credit: Gobierno de la República