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Mexican President: Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Caught

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Friday that infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been caught.

By Morgan Chalfant·
Mexican President: Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Caught

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Friday that infamous drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been caught.

Nieto made the announcement on Twitter.

"Mission accomplished: we have it. I want to inform the Mexican Joaquin Guzman Loera has been arrested," Nieto tweeted Friday in Spanish.

Guzman escaped from a maximum security penitentiary in Mexico last July. He previously escaped from prison in 2001.

This post will be updated as further information becomes available.