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"Joaquin \u201CEl Chapo\u201D Guzm\u00E1n lived the past 13 years of his life a wanted man.\nSince his 2001 escape from prison in the back of a laundry truck, Guzm\u00E1n, who oversaw the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, knew his capture was always imminent. So when authorities descended on a safe house rumored to be holding the drug lord last week, Guzm\u00E1n was able to escape through an elaborate interconnected network of tunnels.  \nSee also: Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Lord Captured in Mazatlan\nDays later, thanks to a wiretap being monitored by DEA agents tracking him just across the border in Arizona, Mexican agents captured him. Guzm\u00E1n is now being held in the country\u2019s highest security prison, and despite the wishes of the United States, has no plans for extradition to face trial in the U.S. anytime soon, according to The Guardian.\nBelow, peer into the tunnels and safe houses that kept the country's most infamous drug lord away from the prying hands of U.S. and Mexican authorities.\n\n\nInside Mexican Drug Lord's Secret Escape Tunnels\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInfamous drug boss Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman used a network of interconnected tunnels in Culiacan, Mexico to evade authorities just days before being captured this week in the resort city of Mazatlan, Mexico. This open steel reinforced door leads to one of the tunnels located in the city's drainage system.\n\nImage: Adriana Gomez/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman's top aides told investigators that he picked Guzman up from a drainage pipe in the city and helped him flee\u2014but a wiretap provided the final clue that led to the arrest of one of the world's most wanted men.\n\nImage: Adriana Gomez/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman spent years on the run at the helm of Mexico's most notorious drug cartel after escaping from a high security federal prison in a laundry truck on on Jan. 19, 2001. Some of the tunnels shown in these photographs were reportedly lined with wood, and contained their own lighting and air conditioning equipment. Guzman, free for more than a decade, was always ready to slip the dragnet again.\n\nImage: Adriana Gomez/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBefore his eventual capture, Guzman reportedly escaped his captors by running through a drainage canal in the network of interconnected tunnels along with his bodyguards. When they fled, Guzman and his cronies reportedly left grenades, a Dodge Charger police cruiser and part of a municipal police uniform behind.\n\nImage: Tim Johnson/MCT\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA number of above-ground properties were interconnected by the tunnels in Culiacan, Mexico. The houses themselves appear to be average homes in the city, but inside them authorities reportedly discovered doors that were reinforced with steel doors\u2014with escape hatches hidden beneath the bathtubs.\n\nImage: Adriana Gomez/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of the properties that was interconnected by tunnels in the city's drainage system featured graffiti on the garage door. It reads in Spanish, \"Secured by the PGR\"\u2014Mexico's Attorney General Office. It is unclear if Guzman will eventually be tried in the U.S. or in Mexico.\n\nImage: Adriana Gomez/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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