How El Chapo Vanished From the Most Secure Prison in 2015 #facts #history#modern #mexico #criminal

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]How does a man walk out of the world's most secure prison without a single alarm going off? Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán wasn't just a drug lord. He was the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most powerful criminal empires in history.

[00:00:13]>> [music] >> After his arrest, he was placed in a maximum security prison in Mexico.

[00:00:17]Escape seemed impossible. But in 2015, it happened. El Chapo disappeared from his cell. No alarms, no signs of forced entry. Only later did guards discover [music] something insane. A 1.5 km underground tunnel had been built pram into his shower area. Lights, ventilation, [music] even a motorcycle track inside the tunnel. He escaped right under the prison's nose.

[00:00:40]>> [music] >> And here's the craziest part. He had already escaped another high-security prison years earlier. How is it even possible to escape the most secure prison in the world [music] twice?