New revelations in Guzmán escape

(Vatican Radio) Glaring contradictions are surfacing, following the release of a surveillance film showing the last moments of captivity of a Mexican drug cartel leader, whose henchmen tunneled 1.5 km into the country's most secure maximum security jail to help him escape. James Blears reports on the latest law and disorder fallout:

The film shows Joaquin "Shorty" Guzmán the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, ducking behind a low wall in his jail cell in front of his shower, and then vanishing. He climbed down into a lighted ventilated tunnel and then got away scot-free.

A former inmate of this penitentiary says barriers obscuring a clear view are simply not allowed in these jail cells. Showers are only ever permitted early morning and never at night. Regular searches of inmates and minute inspections of their cells by trained staff with sniffer dogs would certainly have unearthed a tunnel. Furthermore, Guzmán was wearing a monitoring bracelet which he removed as he went down into his tunnel. That should have immediately activated an alarm. But response and reaction was sluggish... to say the least!

Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto, who's still on a State visit to France, pledges Guzmán WILL be recaptured. But after Guzmán bribed his way out of another maximum security prison in 2001, it took more than 13 years to locate and re-arrest him.

In that time span, he'd developed  the Sinaloa drug cartel into the most powerful hub of organized drug crime in the World, and become a billionaire in the process.