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Mexican President: Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Caught

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman / AP
January 8, 2016

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Friday that infamous drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been caught.

Nieto made the announcement on Twitter.

"Mission accomplished: we have it. I want to inform the Mexican Joaquin Guzman Loera has been arrested," Nieto tweeted Friday in Spanish.

Guzman escaped from a maximum security penitentiary in Mexico last July. He previously escaped from prison in 2001.

This post will be updated as further information becomes available.