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The Political Consequences of El Chapo's Escape
They're celebrating in Sinaloa province, where Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is a local hero. But in Mexico City and Washington DC, his prison escape is a nightmare involving government corruption and international traffic in heroin and cocaine.
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenThey're celebrating in Sinaloa province, where Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is a local hero. But in Mexico City and Washington DC, his prison escape is a nightmare involving government corruption and international traffic in heroin and cocaine.
Also, investigators probe the travel history of the Chattanooga shooter who killed four Marines. On today's Talking Point, how did a routine traffic stop lead to a hanging in a Texas jail?
Photo: A photographer exits a tunnel connected to the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary and used by drug lord Guzmán to escape, in Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City, July 14, 2015. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)
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3 storiesInvestigators Probe Chattanooga Shooter's Travel History
No motive has been established for yesterday's killing of four Marines at a military reserve unit in Chattanooga, Tennessee. A recruiting station was shot up as well. The shooter was Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, and one line of investigation is a trip to Jordan he took last year.
Read the story7 minThe World's Most Wanted Man Is Back on the Loose
This week's escape of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has turned glittering success into abject failure for Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Read the story34 minQuestions Raised about Texas Jail Hanging
The FBI has been called in to investigate the hanging death of a young, black woman in a Texas jail. The official cause is "suicide," but her family finds that incomprehensible. On Friday afternoon, Sandra Bland had just accepted a new job at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M in Waller County, Texas.
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