So that's the level of intimidation that has been brought on by Chappell and other

cartels in Mexico, that even in the law enforcement are hiding their identity to ensure that their

families aren't retaliated against.

I would say between 2008-2009 you would see a high peaking point in the violence.

The major Chappell was landscape from Puente Grande, Calisco. Chappell wanted to continue the negotiations with us.

That's why we have so many pandemics of drug abuse here in the United States where it could

shift from opioids to methamphetamine, then back to cocaine. Chappell, Mousman, whom very quickly

in assessing what drugs were going to be profitable here in the United States.

It's 2001, and Mexican drug baron Joaquin Guzman-Luerra, better known as El Chappell, has spent nearly a decade

behind bars. In 1993, he was captured by the authorities in the Central American country of Guatemala.

He was extradited home to Mexico and sentenced to 20 years in Puente Grande,

in the United States. This is a top security facility, one of the country's finest, but now, at the turn of the new millennium,

it's about to witness the most daring escape attempt in all its history.

Noiser podcasts, this, is Real Nargos.

On the evening of January 19, 2001, a guard makes his usual rounds through the corridors of Puente Grande.

He approaches the cell of Joaquin Guzman. The guards throw it his dry. He always gets nervous when

he has to deal with El Chappell. This is a prisoner whose reputation precedes him.

The guards pulse quickens when he notices the cell doors jar. He gulps. He knows the site that's

about to greet him. True enough, the occupant of the cell is nowhere to be seen. Within minutes,

chaos reigns throughout the jail. Guards round up inmates who are interrogated one by one,

but none of them shed any light on the whereabouts of the fugitive. The cops arrive and take over

the search. They turn every cell, room, and closet upside down, but they find nothing.

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