Mexican Soldiers May be Closing in on the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord Christopher Woody - Business Insider
go to original October 16, 2015

Mexican authorities may be closing in on fugitive Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán four months after his brazen escape from a maximum-security prison in central Mexico.

According to a report from the Mirror, “intense military operations” are ongoing in Guzmán’s home state of Sinaloa, on Mexico’s north Pacific coast. Authorities believe, the Mirror reports, that “they are closing the net on the ruthless criminal.”

Mario Lopez, the Sinaloa state governor, confirmed that Mexican military forces were carrying out operations in the mountains of the Sierra Madre, over an area that extends from Jesus Maria, a town north of the state capital of Culiacan, all the way to the state borders with Chihuahua and Durango — a region called the Golden Triangle for its extensive drug cultivation.

“Military personnel from Mexico City are working in the zone,” said Lopez. “You all know who they’re after.”

According to the Mirror as well as local newspapers, Mexican marines have searched and closed off at least 13 communities in the area, efforts that have forced hundreds of people out of their homes.

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Mexico’s Golden Triangle, a region where Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua converge, is a known locus of drug cultivation and a stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel. (Christopher Woody/Google Maps/Business Insider)

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