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The US offer includes Marshals, drones, and a special task force to hunt down Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera after he escaped from a maximum security Mexican prison last weekend.
President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration has reportedly not responded, and even Mexican officials are confused.
"We can't really understand why [top Mexican officials] are refusing to give an answer," a Mexican official, who works in the country's security apparatus, told the Times. "We're just on standby."
El Chapo's brazen escape and the subsequent response highlight the deterioration of US-Mexico relations under Peña Nieto.
Since taking office in 2012, Peña Nieto has all but ended the practice of extraditing cartel leaders to the US in an attempt $4 Washington influence in fighting the drug war in Mexico.
"The Mexicans think we are domineering and imperialist, and we think they are corrupt," Adam Isacson, a senior associate for regional security at the Washington Office on Latin America, told the Times.
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The US repeatedly asked to have the kingpin extradited, arguing that it's counterproductive to jail these drug lords in a place where they have access to their entire criminal network - including corrupt prison guards.
To that point, Mexico's interior minister $4 that Guzman "had to have" had help to escape from prison officials.
El Chapo's second escape since 2001 came a little over a year after Peña Nieto himself promised that "what happened last time would not be repeated."
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The Mexican president's words came back to haunt him last Saturday, when Guzmán slipped down a shaft into a $4 constructed over the course of a year and vanished into his countrywide support network.