Mexico's most wanted fugitive, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was almost caught again after trying to get his twin daughters' monkey, Boots, back home.
El Chapo, a Mexican drug lord and head of an international crime syndicate, escaped the high-security Altiplano jail on July, which had embarrassed and enraged Mexican authorities and had put a question on the government led by President Enrique Pena Nieto.
In an effort to reunite her daughters with Boots the monkey, El Chapo sent out his associates to fetch his daughters' pet and even followed the proper protocol for the release of the monkey, according to Stuff.co.nz. Boots was left behind in Altiplano prison after El Chapo's jailbreak and the family moving back to Sinaloa.
The application and the documents for Boots' release, however, became a trail for the police and security services to track the drug baron. Upon the monkey's release, the police eventually discovered that the animal was carried in a Ford Mustang belonging to El Chapo's brother in law.
Using a mobile phone signal, the police were able to track the drug lord's location in the mountains of Sierra Madre. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped being caught, however, by jumping off a ravine after the authorities surrounded and approached the area in Sierra Madre by helicopter and on foot then coming under fire. El Chapo reportedly got a leg injury because of his fall. He remains at large.
Anabel Hernandez, a Mexican journalist known to be passionate about organized crime issues, had aired out her doubts about the government's true will on Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman being caught.
She said (via TelesurTV), "The ironic thing is that the same government that let him leave [jail], is now trying to recapture him because they are being pressured by the U.S. government. But, will they capture him?"
"El Chapo was never isolated nor neutralized and the government of Pena Nieto knew that as well as they knew he was planning to escape," Hernandez revealed further.
