Former Mexican president Felipe Calderón asked Gustavo Madero, leader of the National Action Party (PAN) and Sinaloa congressman Jorge Villalobos, explain the appointment of Lucero Sánchez López.
Joaquín Guzmán unsuccessfully tried to help two Mexican members of the Sinaloa cartel arrested for drug trafficking escape from prisions in Nicaragua in 2007 and Costa Rica in 2008.
Since Guzmán's February 2014 arrest, authorities have arrested Héctor Beltrán Leyva, head of the cartel bearing his name, as well as the Juárez Cartel's Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, Knights Templar's Servando "La Tuta" Gómez, and the Zetas' Omar Treviño Morales. Knights Templar leader Nazario Moreno died in a shootout with soldiers.
Dámaso López Núñez was head of Sinaloa's Judicial Police, prosecutor and deputy director of security of the Puente Grande penitentiary in Jalisco around the time Guzmán escaped from this maximum security prison.
According to information of the Narcotics Police, the Army and the Intelligence Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (Dijin) of Colombia obtained by El Tiempo, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is in charge of the business in Colombia.
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El Chapo: the escape of a mobster
Roberto Saviano, author of "Gomorrah", said that Mexican cartels should be defined as mafia organizations, that can not exist without direct links with politics, entrepreneurs and the judiciary beyond simple bribery and corruption.
Italian Alexsandro Palombo turns him into a cartoon.
In the last 25 years the U.S. Border Patrol has detected some 170 tunnels, most belonging to the Sinaloa Cartel, especially in Arizona and California.
Temen que el capo mexicano podría utilizar esos contactos para escabullirse de los 10 mil hombres que lo persiguen en México, reveló el diario El Tiempo
Hailed by supporters in the northwestern state of Sinaloa as a man with more heft than the president, El Chapo's audacious breakout from a maximum security prison through a tunnel has all but guaranteed his immortality in global crime-lore.