Mexican official tweets photo of El Chapo sitting in jail amid escape rumors
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It was no hat trick for El Chapo.
Drug lord Joaquín Guzmán’s nickname trended globally — along with myriad memes — Friday when rumors surfaced he had bolted from prison for a third time.
Alas, the slippery kingpin is still behind bars in Mexico, and this image proves it.
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“For the rumors: an image,” Mexican Secretary of the Interior Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong tweeted in Spanish along with the photo of a computer monitor showing El Chapo sitting in the slammer.
The rumors apparently spread as a result of a fictional article that posted online earlier in the day.
The head of the Sinaloa drug cartel escaped from prison in 2001 and was recaptured in February 2014.
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In July 2015, he slipped out again through a tunnel in his cell. He was recaptured again on Jan. 8.