Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has escaped his maximum security Altiplano prison last month through a mile-long tunnel connecting his prison cell to a remote farmhouse in Mexico after learning of the imminence of his case being extradited to the United Sates.
El Chapo's lawyer, Juan Pablo Badillo Sotto said that his client's main concern has always been his apparent extradition to the U.S. According to Mirror, Sotto said that his client never believed the assurances given by the Mexican government that he would not be brought to the U.S. for trial.
Pablo Escobar's head assassin, Jhon Jairo "Popeye" Velásquez Vásquez who is serving his 23 year prison term, said that El Chapo knew that an extradition to the US would be unbearable with the high-security prison that would make it impossible to escape.
According to Escobar's interview with the Mexican magazine "Proceso," the U.S. prison system limits the prisoner's human contact to almost none, convicts are made to use a straw to eat all their meals and are taken outside for sun exposure while inside a cage, Business Insider reported.
El Chapo has also been imprisoned back in 2001 but has nonetheless used his massive wealth to escape. He is the leader of the Sinaloa cartel and is also considered as the apparent heir to drug lord Escobar's title of being the most powerful kingpin in the world.
Three weeks following El Chapo's escape, the Mexican Attorney General's office confirmed that the U.S has filed an extradition request. However, a court judge had it temporarily suspended in order to allow Sotto to file an injunction. El Chapo's counsel insisted that a future apprehension of the drug lord would bar his pending extradition which was countered by the attorney general's office as per The Guardian.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has recently declared his six-page immigration reform where he wanted the Mexican government to pay for a wall along the border of the two countries in order to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the U.S. According to Trump, Mexico has been allowing the crossing over of people who are "rapists and drug addicts." The 2016 presidential aspirant has been slammed by the public as well as influential Latinos for his malevolent remarks.
Here is footage of El Chapo prior to his escape, courtesy of CNN:
