Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán founded the Sinaloa Cartel in the late 1980s and He immediately became one of the most wanted criminals by justice in Mexico and the United States.
After several years on the radar of the authorities, on June 9, 1993 “El Chapo” was captured on the border between Mexico and Guatemala to later be delivered to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR).
The dangerous criminal was transferred to the Federal Center for Social Readaptation (Cefereso) No. 1 in Almoloya de Juárez, but In November 1995 he was sent to Puente Grande maximum security prison, Jalisco.
However, “El Chapo” Guzmán served only six years of his sentence in this town because On January 18, 2012, he escaped from the maximum security prison using a laundry cart as a means of transportation.
The unusual escape of the then head of the Sinaloa Cartel put this Mexican prison under the eye of the hurricane and that people began to call her with a peculiar nickname.
According to journalist Diego Enrique Osorno, the Puente Grande prison, following the escape of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, It began to be called Puerta Grande because of the ease with which the drug trafficker could disappear in front of the guards.
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“The new Federal Government began its six-year term with an escape from the Puente Grande maximum security prison, given the chaos that existed in the call centers, a commander of the Federal Preventive Police, publicly announced that he had decided to only take into account calls from older people and ignore those who, usually young people, claimed to have sighted ‘El Chapo.'”
“The same in the Chapultepec zoo, or in a popular fair in Tlaxcala, riding the Ferris wheel, In that vein, it was predictable that the Puente Grande prison would be renamed Puerta Grande.”wrote Diego Enrique Osorno, in his book Welcome to Sinaloa.
Despite the commotion caused by the escape of “El Chapo”, This was not the only occasion in which the drug trafficking boss outwitted the authorities and forcibly regained his freedom.
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On July 11, 2015, Joaquín Guzmán Loera escaped from a Mexican prison for the second time when he escaped from El Altiplano through a tunnel more than a kilometer long that ended in a type of warehouse near this place.
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