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Drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has been recaptured seven months after he escaped from prison, Mexican authorities announced Friday.

MEXICO – Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' (Shorty) Guzman has just escaped from the ‘Islas Marias Federal Prison', which is located in the island Maria Madre in Mexico. The Islas Marias Federal Prison has a history of multiple escapes and escape attempts with 76 escapes in the last 25 years. The DOJ alleges that more than just acting as a messenger, Ms Aispuro actively helped plan El Chapo's spectacular escape from the Altiplano prison in Mexico in 2015 through an underground tunnel.

But this isn't the first time El Chapo, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, has been on the lam. The drug kingpin has a long history of capture, escape and recapture.

Here are some major dates in Guzman's timeline (with some information from the Associated Press):

• June 10, 1993: Mexico announces Guzman's first capture in Guatemala. But even after Guzman was imprisoned, 'He continued to manage his affairs from prison with scarcely a hitch,' writes Robert Saviano in his book ZeroZeroZero. 'The maximum security prison Puente Grande, where he was transferred in 1995, became his new base of operations,'

• Jan. 19, 2001: With the help of bribed guards, Guzman escapes from his top-security prison. Saviano describes the escape: 'One of them—Francisco Camberos Rivera, known as El Chito, or the Silent One—opened the door to El Chapo's cell and helped him climb into a cart of dirty laundry. They headed down unguarded hallways and through wide-open electronic doors to the inner parking lot, where only one guard was on duty. El Chapo jumped out of the cart and leaped into the trunk of a Chevrolet Monte Carlo.'

• Feb. 22, 2014: El Chapo is captured in Mazatlan after hiding in tunnels for days. The success was touted as a huge win for authorities, who by then had deemed Guzman the 'most powerful drug trafficker in the world.'

• July 11, 2015: Guzman escapes through a tunnel from Mexico's top-security prison. You can see the path he took to escape here.

• Jan. 8, 2016: He is once again re-captured in Los Mochis, Sinaloa after a shootout with Mexican marines. Five people were killed and one marine was wounded in the fight.

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Mexico's 'Puente Grande' federal prison - made famous by the 2001 escape of convicted drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman - is to be closed for good.

The facility, near the western city of Guadalajara, was known for such lax standards that it earned the nickname 'Big Door'.

The federal Public Safety Department did not give a specific reason for the closure, but said it was part of a modernisation effort aimed at ensuring prisoners' rights and rehabilitation.

But this isn't the first time El Chapo, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, has been on the lam. The drug kingpin has a long history of capture, escape and recapture.

Here are some major dates in Guzman's timeline (with some information from the Associated Press):

• June 10, 1993: Mexico announces Guzman's first capture in Guatemala. But even after Guzman was imprisoned, 'He continued to manage his affairs from prison with scarcely a hitch,' writes Robert Saviano in his book ZeroZeroZero. 'The maximum security prison Puente Grande, where he was transferred in 1995, became his new base of operations,'

• Jan. 19, 2001: With the help of bribed guards, Guzman escapes from his top-security prison. Saviano describes the escape: 'One of them—Francisco Camberos Rivera, known as El Chito, or the Silent One—opened the door to El Chapo's cell and helped him climb into a cart of dirty laundry. They headed down unguarded hallways and through wide-open electronic doors to the inner parking lot, where only one guard was on duty. El Chapo jumped out of the cart and leaped into the trunk of a Chevrolet Monte Carlo.'

• Feb. 22, 2014: El Chapo is captured in Mazatlan after hiding in tunnels for days. The success was touted as a huge win for authorities, who by then had deemed Guzman the 'most powerful drug trafficker in the world.'

• July 11, 2015: Guzman escapes through a tunnel from Mexico's top-security prison. You can see the path he took to escape here.

• Jan. 8, 2016: He is once again re-captured in Los Mochis, Sinaloa after a shootout with Mexican marines. Five people were killed and one marine was wounded in the fight.

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Mexico's 'Puente Grande' federal prison - made famous by the 2001 escape of convicted drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman - is to be closed for good.

The facility, near the western city of Guadalajara, was known for such lax standards that it earned the nickname 'Big Door'.

The federal Public Safety Department did not give a specific reason for the closure, but said it was part of a modernisation effort aimed at ensuring prisoners' rights and rehabilitation.

It said all inmates currently at the prison will be transferred to other facilities.

The complex also houses at least one other state prison although it is not clear if that would remain open.

Guzman was serving a 20-year sentence when he escaped from the prison in 2001, allegedly in a laundry cart.

According to other versions, he simply paid off prison staff and walked out.

Guzman would remain on the run for another 13 years, before being re-arrested and escaping another Mexican prison through a tunnel.

He was finally re-apprehended, extradited to the United States in 2017 and sentenced to life behind bars in 2019.

Did Chapo Escaped Prison Today

But the Puente Grande complex continued making news earlier this year.

In May seven prisoners were killed and nine others were injured during violence and gunfights.

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Officials did not explain how the inmates got the two guns used in the fight.

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The killings followed a prison baseball game, but it was not clear if that was related to the dispute.