Most Mexicans think govt. complicit in El Chapo jail break: Poll

Most Mexicans think govt. complicit in El Chapo jail break: Poll
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/08/08/423785/Mexico-Joaquin-El-Chapo-Guzmn-Drug-lord-Altiplano-jail-Escape
Sat Aug 8, 2015 7:15AM

Handout picture of a DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) poster distributed in Mexico announces an active free phone line to give information to capture Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán and offering a reward of $5 million dollars. (© AFP)

A new poll shows that the majority of Mexican people believe that their government was behind the escape of the most wanted drug lord in the world, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán.

According to a survey conducted by the polling company Parametría, 77 percent of Mexicans believe that their government helped the notorious drug kingpin out of a maximum-security jail last month.

This is while only 17 percent of the respondents to the survey said Guzmán’s cartel had masterminded the escape.

According to the survey, less than half of all those polled believe that the fugitive drug lord will be caught.

Joaquin Guzmán, better known as El Chapo (Shorty), was named by American business magazine Forbes as the 14th richest man in the world.

Guzman managed to escape from his cell at the Altiplano jail, which is Mexico’s highest-security facility, on July 11 even though he was reportedly wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, and surveillance cameras were recording his jail cell 24 hours a day.

View of the shower in the Almoloya prison, where Joaquin Guzman Loera “El Chapo” Guzmán was, and from which he escaped through a tunnel, on July 15, 2015, in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico. (© AFP)

Over half of those polled do not believe there is any point in recapturing El Chapo, as their trust in government has dropped so significantly.

“Nowadays, people are much better informed and better educated, especially the younger generation, and they are tired of lies, corruption, and clumsy declarations. This signifies a failing political system that cannot sustain itself anymore,” Lenin Martell, professor of communication and cultural studies at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico said on Friday.

This was not the first time the notorious drug lord escaped prison. Guzmán’s first prison break was in 2001, when he slipped past authorities by hiding in a laundry cart in the western Jalisco state.

Mexican Marines recaptured him in February 2014 in a predawn raid at a condo in Mazatlan, a Pacific resort in Sinaloa State.