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Into History.

com. It's the early hours of January 8th, 2016 in Los Mochis, a city in the state of Cinalloa, Mexico.

Inside a safe house, Drug Lord Waukeaquin Guzman snaps

snaps awake at the sound of shouting.

Adrenaline floods through his body.

He creeps toward a window to look outside.

What a burst of gunfire makes him jump back?

With a sinking feeling, Wachim realizes that the police have finally caught up with him.

But fortunately, he has a plan.

Wachin yanks open a door to the closet.

There, inset into the floor, is a hatch that leads to a sewer.

Before he descends into the dark tunnel,

Wakin commands one of his lieutenants,

or so Ivan Gostalom, to come with him.

The two men quickly climb down a ladder, close the hatch, and start running through the dirty water.

When Wachim judges that they've run far enough, he and Orso climb out of the sewer and

emerged near the city center.

Orso approaches a cab driver, draws a gun, and commands the driver to get out, then Orso and Joaquin jump in, speed off, happy to have made an escape.

For more than 20 years, Joaquin Guzman has been Mexico's most notorious criminal,

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