Lesson of the day: don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.
The news of another El Chapo escape has been spreading around social media and several fake reports have been picked up by media outlets. Let us be the ones to burst your bubble, Chapo hasn’t escaped.
This is an excerpt from the fake ABC report going around:
AP Mexico City, Mexico — Early this morning, drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, head of the Sinaloa Cartel, escaped from the Altiplano maximum security prison once again.
It is unclear at this point what exactly happened, but these are the details ABC News has received from Mexican officials so far:2:35 AM: Guzmán was taken in restraints by two prison guards on a routine cell transfer.
3:05 AM: Prison staff could not locate Guzmán or the two prison guards’s whereabouts. The prison was put on lockdown as personnel went looking for them.
4:15 AM: A prison van was found abandoned only a mile away from the prison. Mexican officials believe the two guards, who began working at the prison just months ago, were actually members of the Sinaloa Cartel working for Guzmán.
This is now the third time Guzmán has escaped from a Mexican prison and brings into question Mexico’s ability to keep corruption out of it’s penal system.
It’d be great for the Bond Villian narrative if El Chapo did thwart authorities again but it hasn’t happened yet, so we all have to sit back and keep waiting.
For those thinking that the ABC site looks legit, here’s their site info from the bottom of their webpage:
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