BADIRAGUATO, MEXICO ¨C In Joaquin ¡°El Chapo¡± Guzman¡¯s hometown, some thought they were dreaming and others shed tears of joy when they heard the drug lord had broken out of Mexico¡¯s top maximum security prison through a tunnel built into his cell.
A picturesque, agricultural backwater in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains of northwestern Mexico, Badiraguato has been the breeding ground for some of the world¡¯s most notorious ¡ª and successful ¡ª drug traffickers.
Above them all stands ¡°El Chapo,¡± or ¡°Shorty,¡± whose second escape from prison a week ago humiliated President Enrique Pena Nieto and utterly exposed the limits of the federal government¡¯s power.
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