LatinNews Monitor: Mexico - 16 November 2015

Ninety-seven days after Joaquín Guzmán (‘el Chapo’) broke out of the Altiplano high-security prison, the government’s security cabinet announced that he had evaded recapture somewhere in the northeast of the country and in his flight had suffered injuries to a leg and his face ― not, the official communiqué said, as a result of a ‘direct confrontation’. To date, the authorities have not added any precision to this account, save to deny some claims in the media. Though a full, accurate account is yet to emerge, the information that has become available suggests that the government may have had good reasons to remain tight-lipped.