PHOTOS: Inside Mexican drug lord’s secret escape tunnels where they found $32 billion in cash

(MASHABLE) Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán lived the
past 13 years of his life a wanted man. Since his 2001
escape from prison in the back of a laundry truck ,
Guzmán, who oversaw the notorious Sinaloa Cartel,
knew his capture was always imminent. So when
authorities descended on a safe house rumored to be
holding the drug lord last week, Guzmán was able to
escape through an elaborate interconnected network of
tunnels .
Days later, thanks to a wiretap being monitored by DEA
agents tracking him just across the border in Arizona,
Mexican agents captured him. Guzmán is now being
held in the country’s highest security prison, and
despite the wishes of the United States, has no plans
for extradition to face trial in the U.S. anytime soon,
according to The Guardian .
Below, peer into the tunnels and safe houses that kept
the country’s most infamous drug lord away from the
prying hands of U.S. and Mexican authorities.
Infamous drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman used
a network of interconnected tunnels in Culiacan,
Mexico to evade authorities just days before being
captured this week in the resort city of Mazatlan,
Mexico. This open steel reinforced door leads to one of
the tunnels located in the city’s drainage system.