The very first narco tunnel running from Mexico to the US was met with universal shock and bewilderment when it was found by authorities. Chip in as little as $3 to help keep it free for everyone. When they finally found the end of the tunnel in a storm drain a mile away from where it began, Chapo was gone. Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. "What are their techniques? Especially near the equator, where temps are consistently high, ripe oranges are commonly green.

"There are so many questions," Tim Durst said. It was even kitted out with a motorcycle modified to run on rails, which Chapo used to make a high speed getaway. The very first narco tunnel running from Mexico to the US was met with universal shock and bewilderment when it was found by authorities. The cost of the excavation itself has been estimated at about 1 million pesos (US $63,000), with an additional 500,000 pesos needed to install the electrical wiring, ventilation system and rails. A secret tunnel under El Chapo's bath. The Tamaulipas state security spokesman Luis Alberto Rodriguez said 12 of the 29 have been recaptured. A man police say is the lead hitman for Guanajuato’s Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel has been arrested on multiple homicide charges. "Tell them to send all the drugs they can send.". The federal government has enlarged by 50% an area of what it calls zero tolerance to protect the endangered vaquita marina porpoise. Such plans are highly classified and their access restricted. The tunnel was described by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in San Diego as the "Taj Mahal" of drug tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border and was linked to Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán. “If three planes arrived per week, now ten were arriving,” said Miguel Ángel Martínez, a member of Chapo's operation, the New Yorker reports.

AS armed agents stand guard on the US-Mexico border, ruthless cartels work night and day to smuggle millions of dollars worth of drugs in a shadowy underground of "narco tunnels" right beneath their feet.

That tunnel escape was highly embarrassing for the government of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, and Mexican officials were seen as eager to hand the headache off to the United States afterward. But, other than Corona-Verbera, the tunnels' designers are often completely unknown to law enforcement as cartels keep their identities a fiercely guarded secret. Fortino Serrano Park is one of 80 places in Venustiano Carranza where authorities lend tablet computers to students to do schoolwork. It used to be a zoo but is now dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and return to the wild of hapless mammals, reptiles and birds. THE STORY: El Chapo’s career spanned the past four decades, and his success was defined by his subterranean inclinations. An indigenous leader said thieves are stripping their land of yucca and depriving residents of their livelihoods in the process.

Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, This trapdoor covered the entrance to a tunnel running between Tijuana and San Diego used to smuggle tonnes of drugs during lockdown, The narco tunnel is one of hundreds that have been discovered along the US/Mexico border, A tunnel entry team agent inside the longest narco tunnel ever discovered, The staggering architectural feat stretched over a mile underneath the US/Mexico border, A covered access point leading to a smuggling tunnel is seen on the U.S side of the border wall in San Diego, California, This was the first ever discovered narco tunnel dubbed 'cocaine alley' - it was hidden underneath a pool table, The tunnel was built on the orders of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel - he's now serving life in prison for durg trafficking, Narco tunnels vastly increased the cartel's ability to smuggle drugs - this 24.5tonne seizure of cannabis was pulled from a single tunnel in 2010, The tunnels can be extremely sophisticated, featuring complex railway and ventilation systems like this one in Tijuana, This was the hole that stunned guards searching under Chapo's cell - it led to a tunnel that the drug lord used to escape prison, Chapo sped off in the tunnel on a modified motorcycle that allowed him to make a fast getaway, This was the hole that Chapo climbed out of in an unfinished house when he made his extraordinary jailbreak in 2015, This disused KFC was used to cover a 600ft-long narco tunnel - the shaft was only discovered when the KFC's owner was caught with 168kg of cocaine and heroin, The entrance to the tunnel was 22ft deep and three feet wide and connected the fast food joint to a bedroom in Mexico, Video of the ‘Longest-ever’ drug smuggling tunnel under US / Mexico border ever discovered, new ways to keep cash coming in during the pandemic, longest "super tunnel" ever found was uncovered in January, Sinaloa Cartel, El Chapo's bloodthirsty organised crime gang, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). And that's led to record violence — in March this year, there were a staggering 2,585 murders in a single month, the bloodiest since records began in 1997. Despite the stealth under which the tunnel would have been excavated and built, pneumatic hammer drills had to be used within El Chapo’s cell, and with an operational noise between 100 to 140 decibels, there could have been nothing stealthy about that part of the process.

When uncovered, cops fill narco tunnels in with concrete slurry. But on the night of July 11, 2015, his second jailbreak was even more baffling — by vanishing from inside his locked cell. They found 30lbs of cannabis stashed in the passageway which was constructed 40 feet below the surface.