Fugitive drug lord ‘injured’ evading police in Mexican mountains

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Drug lord Joaquin &&num;8220&semi;El Chapo&&num;8221&semi; Guzman is believed to have been injured evading police in the mountains of north-western Mexico&comma; according to officials&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Guzman is thought to have injured a leg and his face in making yet another escape from the authorities after tunnelling out of a maximum security prison in July&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mexico&&num;8217&semi;s security cabinet provided no details on when or where the operation to recapture Guzman took place&comma; but it said efforts have been continuing since his daring escape from his cell in the jail in Almoloya de Juarez&comma; near Toluca&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The government cited information-sharing with international agencies for leading its hunt for Guzman to north-western Mexico&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Guzman evaded capture for years in the rugged mountains of Sinaloa state&comma; and had previously escaped from another maximum security prison in 2001&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; soldiers have captured the purported leader of a Gulf Cartel faction in the city of Matamoros&comma; close to the Texas border the state government said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tamaulipas state&&num;8217&semi;s co-ordinating group said Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriguez&comma; alias &&num;8220&semi;Ciclon 7&&num;8221&semi;&comma; was detained by soldiers&period; The statement said Prado Rodriguez was the last of 15 priority targets in the state&&num;8217&semi;s security plan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Prado Rodriguez allegedly led the Ciclones&comma; or Cyclones&comma; faction of the Gulf Cartel which has been locked in a violent power struggle with the Metros faction based in the border city of Reynosa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nora Gonzalez&comma; spokeswoman for the city government&comma; said mayor Leticia Salazar had requested increased federal and military security in case the arrest led to more violence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Gulf Cartel has fragmented into various competing factions in recent years&comma; but together they control much of the drug and human trafficking along the border with the southern-most part of Texas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Government data show that the number of homicides in the state is down from last year&period; Between January and August there were 393 killings recorded&comma; compared with 464 during the same period of 2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e497a839">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e497a839'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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