Video shows captured drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman escorted onto flight under heavy guard
In a fitting end to a prison escape that began with a plane flight to a mountainous hideout, fugitive Mexico drug lord and Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was ushered onto a flight from Los Mochis in Sinaloa state to Mexico City with a towel draped over his head, as members of Mexico's military and security forces looked on.
Guzmán broke out of prison in central Mexico on July 11, quickly slipping back into his cartel's traditional stronghold in northwest Mexico, an area known as the Golden Triangle for its extensive drug cultivation.
Once there, he and his henchmen eluded an intense manhunt for weeks before he was apprehended in a Friday-morning operation by Mexican marines.
The operation that finally caught Guzmán was undertaken with the assistance of US DEA agents and US Marshals, Reuters reported, citing a senior Mexican official.
The video, posted by a Mexican journalist, can be seen below.
