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To the Point

The Political Consequences of El Chapo's Escape

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

They're celebrating in Sinaloa province, where Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is a local hero. But in Mexico City and Washington DC, his prison escape is a nightmare involving government corruption and international traffic in heroin and cocaine.

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Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center.

0:02.9

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From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

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The world's most wanted men is back on the loose.

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Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. The escape of drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo-Giouzman has turned glittering success into abject failure for Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto. The sophisticated tunnel built under the noses of prison officials has made a mockery of security and raised suspicion

0:55.1

of official complicity. Gussman's cartel is reportedly the main supplier of cocaine and heroin to the

1:01.0

United States, and his show of power is a blow to international cooperation. We'll follow that

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story on both sides of the border. Today's talking point, how did a routine traffic stop lead to a

1:12.4

hanging in a Texas jail? First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Warren, I'll leave back with To the Point. They're celebrating in Sinaloa province

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where Joaquin Alchapo Guzman is a local hero, but in Mexico City and Washington, D.C., his

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prison escape is a nightmare involving government corruption and international traffic in heroin

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and cocaine.

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What about that?

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Today's talking point.

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The FBI has been called into the case of a young black woman found hanged in a Texas jail

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where she'd been taken after being stopped for failing to signal while changing lanes.

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We'll hear from a state senator who wants some answers.

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