Mexico blames human rights laws for El Chapo's escape

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Yes because I'm sure THAT WAS THE ONLY REASON. 


www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/11742163/Mexico-blames-human-rights-laws-for-El-Chapo-escape.html


Mexico's government has released security camera footage showing how Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman, the fugitive drug lord, escaped by crawling though a hole in the floor of his cell's shower.

The 60 sq ft cell was completely covered by cameras apart from the bottom half of the shower area.

Guzman had successfully petitioned the National Human Rights Commission asking for the area to remain obscured from view to protect his privacy while he washed.

In the moments before the escape last weekend the Sinaloa cartel leader could be seen in grainy footage pacing the cell and checking behind a waist-high partition wall next to the shower.
 
He then sat on his bed and changed his shoes before going back behind the partition, crouching down, and disappearing from view.

Prison officials later found that he had removed a a slab of concrete from the shower floor and crawled into a sophisticated mile-long tunnel that had been dug into the prison by his followers.

The tunnel was high enough for him to stand up in and he fled using a motorcycle that had been attached to rails.
El Chapo's escape bike (Splash News)

At the other end he climbed several ladders and emerged into a construction site.

Investigators later found a power generator the size of a car which had provided the electricity for lighting the tunnel and pumping in oxygen while it was being built.

Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, the Mexcian Interior Minister, has called for human rights policies in prisons to be overhauled.
He said the blind spot in the cell's shower existed "for human rights reasons to respect intimacy".

The minister has also criticised the National Human Rights Commission for not allowing the prison to fit Guzman with a bracelet that could have been used to track him outside its walls.

Mexico has offered a $3.8 million reward for information leading to Guzman's capture and Interpol has put out an alert in more than 100 countries.

[NitaX]

Umm, no.

[ijack]

I feel like there are larger things to blame here

[mrsbro]

Mexican prisons are way too cushy for their drug lords.

Human rights,shuman shmites. REVAMP ALL THE POLICIES!

[elleblue]

Yeah, Mexico is known for going overboard when it comes to preserving and protecting human rights. Mmhmmm.

[heyjude]

I was shocked he had his own private shower.

[heyjude]

This is the same guy who escaped authorities by going down a tunnel underneath his bathtub at home. When he requested "private bathing time" someone should have said "wait...."

[Alyssa]

There is so much corruption down there. We couldn't even drive through Tijuana without getting pulled over and robbed by one of the members of their police force. I refuse to step foot in Mexico now.