1 00:00:01,909 --> 00:00:03,669 - The most violent drug lord in history. 2 00:00:03,828 --> 00:00:07,006 - Part of El Chapo's rise is just how ruthless he was. 3 00:00:07,165 --> 00:00:10,167 Innocent people would be caught in the crossfire. 4 00:00:10,251 --> 00:00:13,670 - The most secure prison in Mexico. 5 00:00:13,763 --> 00:00:16,181 - Chapo's incarcerated in Altiplano prison, 6 00:00:16,266 --> 00:00:17,850 which is super-maximum security. 7 00:00:18,009 --> 00:00:20,677 - It was thought to be impregnable. 8 00:00:20,770 --> 00:00:24,264 - And a daring attempt to break in. 9 00:00:24,357 --> 00:00:26,516 - A one-mile tunnel. 10 00:00:26,601 --> 00:00:30,187 How would you be able to pinpoint where to come up? 11 00:00:30,271 --> 00:00:31,697 [dramatic music] 12 00:00:31,856 --> 00:00:35,192 - You can see him pacing back and forth in the cell, 13 00:00:35,276 --> 00:00:39,362 and then all of a sudden, he's gone. 14 00:00:39,447 --> 00:00:44,451 ♪ ♪ 15 00:00:44,544 --> 00:00:49,214 - Some of the greatest stories ever told start behind bars. 16 00:00:49,373 --> 00:00:50,874 ♪ ♪ 17 00:00:50,958 --> 00:00:52,876 Locked up in the most notorious prisons 18 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,553 in the world, 19 00:00:54,712 --> 00:00:58,223 spied on by guards and fellow prisoners. 20 00:00:59,383 --> 00:01:02,728 It takes a devious mind to find a way out. 21 00:01:04,639 --> 00:01:07,557 It could lead you to freedom. 22 00:01:07,650 --> 00:01:09,902 Or it could cost you your life. 23 00:01:11,312 --> 00:01:13,906 But wouldn't you try, 24 00:01:14,065 --> 00:01:15,565 when you have nothing left to lose? 25 00:01:15,650 --> 00:01:19,369 ♪ ♪ 26 00:01:22,490 --> 00:01:25,584 [tense music] 27 00:01:25,743 --> 00:01:32,249 ♪ ♪ 28 00:01:32,333 --> 00:01:34,084 This is an isolation cell 29 00:01:34,177 --> 00:01:37,587 in Federal Social Readaptation Center Number Two, 30 00:01:37,672 --> 00:01:39,848 known as Puente Grande, 31 00:01:40,007 --> 00:01:43,602 just outside of Guadalajara, Mexico. 32 00:01:43,686 --> 00:01:45,437 To escape means overcoming layer 33 00:01:45,522 --> 00:01:48,941 after layer of impenetrable walls 34 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:52,444 and an army of guards that outnumber the inmates 35 00:01:52,529 --> 00:01:55,021 almost two-to-one. 36 00:01:55,106 --> 00:01:57,607 Seem like overkill? 37 00:01:57,700 --> 00:02:00,193 Not if you're dealing with a very special class 38 00:02:00,278 --> 00:02:03,363 of criminal--the drug lord. 39 00:02:03,456 --> 00:02:06,449 [helicopter whirring] 40 00:02:06,534 --> 00:02:09,628 Drug lords have their own private armies, 41 00:02:09,712 --> 00:02:13,966 so the walls of Puente Grande need to be able to withstand 42 00:02:14,125 --> 00:02:17,469 a full-scale assault from the outside. 43 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,715 Above the walls, armed guards and towers 44 00:02:21,799 --> 00:02:23,550 keep an eye on everything 45 00:02:23,643 --> 00:02:27,146 and everyone that comes and goes from this lock-up. 46 00:02:27,230 --> 00:02:32,568 Any attempt to get in or out must avoid their watchful eye. 47 00:02:33,811 --> 00:02:37,480 - Puente Grande had a vast surveillance 48 00:02:37,565 --> 00:02:39,983 and security apparatus. 49 00:02:40,067 --> 00:02:43,745 It was the place that narco-criminals were sent. 50 00:02:43,905 --> 00:02:46,323 It was thought to be impregnable. 51 00:02:46,416 --> 00:02:49,418 - This cell is home to one of the most 52 00:02:49,502 --> 00:02:51,920 notorious and bloodthirsty narco-criminals 53 00:02:52,005 --> 00:02:54,581 of all time... 54 00:02:54,665 --> 00:02:59,502 Joaquín Guzmán, known to the world as El Chapo. 55 00:02:59,587 --> 00:03:05,851 ♪ ♪ 56 00:03:06,010 --> 00:03:08,604 He's a billionaire, a murderer, 57 00:03:08,763 --> 00:03:10,689 and a folk hero. 58 00:03:10,773 --> 00:03:13,525 To the Mexican government, 59 00:03:13,610 --> 00:03:16,770 he's just public enemy number one. 60 00:03:16,854 --> 00:03:19,773 - El Chapo is the 21st century's 61 00:03:19,857 --> 00:03:22,359 narco-celebrity of all narco-celebrities. 62 00:03:22,443 --> 00:03:24,110 [chatter] 63 00:03:24,195 --> 00:03:26,112 - If you ask anybody, he's still 64 00:03:26,206 --> 00:03:27,956 the most feared drug trafficker in the world. 65 00:03:28,115 --> 00:03:29,449 There are places in Mexico 66 00:03:29,533 --> 00:03:32,461 where his name is just whispered now. 67 00:03:32,620 --> 00:03:36,632 Part of El Chapo's rise is just how ruthless he was. 68 00:03:36,716 --> 00:03:38,375 There were certainly tens of thousands, 69 00:03:38,459 --> 00:03:41,044 if not more that were collateral damage 70 00:03:41,137 --> 00:03:43,472 as a result of the raging drug war 71 00:03:43,556 --> 00:03:45,390 that he was at the center of. 72 00:03:45,549 --> 00:03:47,550 ♪ ♪ 73 00:03:47,635 --> 00:03:51,972 - Joaquín Guzmán starts growing marijuana in 1972, 74 00:03:52,056 --> 00:03:53,723 and rises quickly 75 00:03:53,808 --> 00:03:56,401 in the violent international drug trade. 76 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,488 By 1989, he's head of the infamous 77 00:03:59,647 --> 00:04:02,399 Sinaloa Cartel. 78 00:04:02,492 --> 00:04:04,150 But during a bloody turf battle 79 00:04:04,244 --> 00:04:06,152 with a rival cartel, 80 00:04:06,246 --> 00:04:09,906 a beloved Catholic bishop is killed in the crossfire, 81 00:04:09,999 --> 00:04:13,910 and El Chapo becomes a wanted man. 82 00:04:13,995 --> 00:04:15,921 - As a result of this, the Mexican government 83 00:04:16,005 --> 00:04:17,914 mounted a massive manhunt. 84 00:04:17,999 --> 00:04:19,091 [gunfire] 85 00:04:19,250 --> 00:04:21,584 They finally apprehended him in Guatemala 86 00:04:21,669 --> 00:04:24,096 in June 1993. 87 00:04:24,180 --> 00:04:27,766 And from there, he goes to Puente Grande prison. 88 00:04:27,925 --> 00:04:30,343 - But despite the prison's intense security, 89 00:04:30,428 --> 00:04:32,762 Puente Grande doesn't turn out to be 90 00:04:32,847 --> 00:04:34,606 such a bad place for El Chapo. 91 00:04:34,765 --> 00:04:36,608 ♪ ♪ 92 00:04:36,767 --> 00:04:38,935 Using his reputation for brute violence, 93 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:43,023 plus $2.5 million worth of bribes, 94 00:04:43,107 --> 00:04:45,200 he soon makes the prison a comfortable base 95 00:04:45,359 --> 00:04:47,861 from which to run his empire. 96 00:04:47,954 --> 00:04:51,623 - The life that Chapo Guzmán lived inside Puente Grande 97 00:04:51,708 --> 00:04:55,285 was almost more luxurious than the Italian gangsters 98 00:04:55,378 --> 00:04:57,454 who were locked up, you know, in "Goodfellas." 99 00:04:57,538 --> 00:05:00,132 [upbeat music] 100 00:05:00,291 --> 00:05:03,969 He had his pick of liquor, lobster, women. 101 00:05:04,053 --> 00:05:08,724 He was allowed to have visits not only from his main wife, 102 00:05:08,883 --> 00:05:10,809 but from his second wife. 103 00:05:10,968 --> 00:05:13,979 He also had a prison girlfriend. 104 00:05:14,138 --> 00:05:18,308 He had--he essentially had free access to telephones. 105 00:05:18,392 --> 00:05:23,563 And all of this was possible because he had befriended 106 00:05:23,656 --> 00:05:28,568 the deputy warden for security of Puente Grande, 107 00:05:28,652 --> 00:05:31,071 a guy named Dámaso López. 108 00:05:31,164 --> 00:05:33,999 [suspenseful music] 109 00:05:34,158 --> 00:05:37,169 ♪ ♪ 110 00:05:37,328 --> 00:05:40,663 López, who, in exchange for small gifts, 111 00:05:40,757 --> 00:05:43,666 like cash and a nice house, 112 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,761 essentially gave Chapo Guzmán 113 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,254 the run of Puente Grande. 114 00:05:48,339 --> 00:05:49,765 - At some point, he had paid off 115 00:05:49,849 --> 00:05:53,018 almost every single official in the prison. 116 00:05:53,102 --> 00:05:56,679 - Chapo was still able to organize drug shipments, 117 00:05:56,773 --> 00:05:59,191 even though he was within Puente Grande prison. 118 00:05:59,350 --> 00:06:01,518 ♪ ♪ 119 00:06:01,602 --> 00:06:03,603 - It's at this time that El Chapo makes 120 00:06:03,687 --> 00:06:07,524 a brilliant innovation in the drug-trafficking business. 121 00:06:07,617 --> 00:06:09,776 - How do you get anything across what is 122 00:06:09,860 --> 00:06:11,194 a heavily-patrolled border? 123 00:06:11,278 --> 00:06:14,781 What if you could evade detection by going below? 124 00:06:14,865 --> 00:06:18,368 What if you could construct an easy pathway from Mexico 125 00:06:18,452 --> 00:06:19,869 into the United States, 126 00:06:19,954 --> 00:06:22,214 one that was air conditioned, one that had lighting, 127 00:06:22,373 --> 00:06:24,132 one that had an elaborate railcar system 128 00:06:24,291 --> 00:06:26,051 that could transport hundreds, 129 00:06:26,210 --> 00:06:28,804 thousands of kilograms-- Marijuana, 130 00:06:28,963 --> 00:06:32,132 cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine? 131 00:06:32,216 --> 00:06:34,309 Well, if you could figure that out, 132 00:06:34,468 --> 00:06:35,977 you'd be a successful man. 133 00:06:36,137 --> 00:06:38,647 A man who pioneers the use 134 00:06:38,806 --> 00:06:40,723 of tunnels to transport narcotics 135 00:06:40,808 --> 00:06:45,737 across the United States-Mexico border is El Chapo. 136 00:06:45,896 --> 00:06:49,574 ♪ ♪ 137 00:06:49,733 --> 00:06:55,414 - He employed highly-skilled architects and engineers 138 00:06:55,498 --> 00:06:58,241 to design these tunnels for him. 139 00:06:58,334 --> 00:07:02,838 He managed to maintain an operation 140 00:07:02,922 --> 00:07:04,581 that was netting him 141 00:07:04,674 --> 00:07:07,926 in the neighborhood of $20 million a month. 142 00:07:08,085 --> 00:07:12,839 Guzmán's empire grew almost more than it had 143 00:07:12,932 --> 00:07:15,175 before he was incarcerated. 144 00:07:15,268 --> 00:07:18,261 - El Chapo's business savvy and the intense loyalty 145 00:07:18,345 --> 00:07:20,430 he instills in his underlings 146 00:07:20,514 --> 00:07:25,026 keeps the Sinaloa Cartel running from behind bars. 147 00:07:25,186 --> 00:07:28,113 But all that is about to change. 148 00:07:28,197 --> 00:07:30,190 - In the mid to late '90s, 149 00:07:30,274 --> 00:07:32,775 Mexico is not extraditing Mexican nationals 150 00:07:32,860 --> 00:07:34,453 to the United States. 151 00:07:34,612 --> 00:07:37,113 But something changed beginning in 2001. 152 00:07:37,198 --> 00:07:40,450 The Mexican Supreme Court issued an opinion saying 153 00:07:40,543 --> 00:07:43,119 that it would restart extraditions 154 00:07:43,212 --> 00:07:45,538 of Mexican nationals to the United States. 155 00:07:45,631 --> 00:07:47,132 And Chapo was not having it. 156 00:07:47,216 --> 00:07:49,375 - Hanging around in his plush prison hideout 157 00:07:49,460 --> 00:07:51,377 is no longer an option. 158 00:07:51,462 --> 00:07:53,472 El Chapo is a sitting duck 159 00:07:53,631 --> 00:07:56,808 if he can't get out of here--fast. 160 00:07:58,311 --> 00:08:01,721 - Chapo learns that he has been charged 161 00:08:01,814 --> 00:08:04,065 with drug trafficking crimes here in the United States, 162 00:08:04,225 --> 00:08:05,650 and he's worried. He's concerned that 163 00:08:05,809 --> 00:08:07,903 if he gets extradited in the United States, 164 00:08:07,987 --> 00:08:09,812 he's not gonna have the same ability 165 00:08:09,897 --> 00:08:11,981 to control his cartel, 166 00:08:12,066 --> 00:08:14,817 give out instructions, coordinate drug shipments 167 00:08:14,902 --> 00:08:16,319 from inside a U.S. prison cell. 168 00:08:16,403 --> 00:08:19,748 So he realizes that he has to get out. 169 00:08:19,907 --> 00:08:22,242 - El Chapo isn't just the mastermind 170 00:08:22,326 --> 00:08:25,745 of an international drug cartel. 171 00:08:25,829 --> 00:08:27,672 He's also an escape artist. 172 00:08:27,831 --> 00:08:29,591 ♪ ♪ 173 00:08:29,675 --> 00:08:32,418 He knows he needs to be very careful 174 00:08:32,503 --> 00:08:35,013 who he confides in about his plans. 175 00:08:35,172 --> 00:08:36,848 ♪ ♪ 176 00:08:37,007 --> 00:08:39,601 - What you see is, within a matter of weeks, 177 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:41,853 Chapo put together his escape plan 178 00:08:41,938 --> 00:08:43,596 from Puente Grande Prison. 179 00:08:43,689 --> 00:08:47,267 [suspenseful music] 180 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,112 - He orchestrates a complex series of getaway vehicles 181 00:08:51,197 --> 00:08:54,366 to be put in place for his jail break. 182 00:08:54,525 --> 00:08:56,117 He threatens the lives of anyone 183 00:08:56,277 --> 00:08:58,870 who could reveal the plan. 184 00:08:59,029 --> 00:09:03,124 And of course, he greases a lot of palms. 185 00:09:03,284 --> 00:09:04,450 - For this escape, 186 00:09:04,544 --> 00:09:08,380 he bribed a much smaller group of officials, 187 00:09:08,464 --> 00:09:10,957 the idea being the fewer people that know, 188 00:09:11,041 --> 00:09:12,467 the less trouble there will be. 189 00:09:12,626 --> 00:09:14,386 And so ultimately, 190 00:09:14,545 --> 00:09:17,714 he bribed one of the workers, a man named Chito. 191 00:09:17,798 --> 00:09:23,395 ♪ ♪ 192 00:09:23,554 --> 00:09:26,306 - It's Chito's job to take this laundry cart 193 00:09:26,390 --> 00:09:28,733 out of the prison in a van, and take the laundry 194 00:09:28,818 --> 00:09:30,986 to be cleaned to bring it back to the prison. 195 00:09:31,070 --> 00:09:36,074 - El Chito, or the Quiet One, is a perfect accomplice, 196 00:09:36,233 --> 00:09:38,994 since, in his lowly janitorial position, 197 00:09:39,078 --> 00:09:41,913 he's off the radar of the other guards. 198 00:09:42,072 --> 00:09:44,249 ♪ ♪ 199 00:09:44,333 --> 00:09:46,501 [gate squeaks] 200 00:09:46,660 --> 00:09:49,421 - The Quiet One opens his cell door, 201 00:09:49,580 --> 00:09:52,257 helps him into a cart of dirty laundry, 202 00:09:52,416 --> 00:09:55,677 conceals him, walks him out of the cell. 203 00:09:55,836 --> 00:09:58,504 - Chapo knows exactly how many gates 204 00:09:58,598 --> 00:10:00,932 he has to get through in order to be free. 205 00:10:01,091 --> 00:10:04,510 Now, at some point, Chito lets go of the cart 206 00:10:04,604 --> 00:10:07,022 in order to ask one of the guards to open the gate. 207 00:10:07,181 --> 00:10:08,857 The cart starts rolling back, 208 00:10:09,016 --> 00:10:11,434 and Chapo winds up being terrified 209 00:10:11,527 --> 00:10:13,519 that the cart is gonna spill over, 210 00:10:13,613 --> 00:10:15,447 he'll fall out on the floor, 211 00:10:15,606 --> 00:10:17,023 and he'll be sent right back to prison. 212 00:10:17,116 --> 00:10:19,284 But the cart stays upright. 213 00:10:19,443 --> 00:10:22,945 Chito collects it, walks out of the prison, 214 00:10:23,030 --> 00:10:25,031 into the parking lot, opens the trunk 215 00:10:25,115 --> 00:10:28,034 of a Chevy Monte Carlo that El Chapo hops into, 216 00:10:28,118 --> 00:10:30,620 and then the prison guard drives him away. 217 00:10:30,704 --> 00:10:32,372 - He's got a head start, 218 00:10:32,456 --> 00:10:33,790 thanks to having the local police 219 00:10:33,874 --> 00:10:35,216 in his pocket. 220 00:10:35,301 --> 00:10:39,045 But federal law enforcement gets word of the escape, 221 00:10:39,138 --> 00:10:41,306 and the chase is on. 222 00:10:41,390 --> 00:10:43,049 He still has a long, dangerous road 223 00:10:43,133 --> 00:10:44,476 ahead of him to safety. 224 00:10:44,635 --> 00:10:47,053 ♪ ♪ 225 00:10:47,137 --> 00:10:49,889 - He was met by yet another car, 226 00:10:49,973 --> 00:10:53,068 an armored Volkswagen, so it is said, 227 00:10:53,227 --> 00:10:55,228 from which he was driven to a place 228 00:10:55,312 --> 00:10:57,489 where he was picked up in a helicopter. 229 00:10:57,648 --> 00:11:00,983 The helicopter flew him to yet another location, 230 00:11:01,077 --> 00:11:03,236 where Guzmán got into a third car, 231 00:11:03,329 --> 00:11:07,323 and made a multi-hour drive from that secret location 232 00:11:07,408 --> 00:11:09,409 to Mexico City. 233 00:11:09,493 --> 00:11:11,252 Arriving in Mexico City, 234 00:11:11,337 --> 00:11:13,496 Guzmán is said to have looked up 235 00:11:13,580 --> 00:11:15,164 from the back seat of the vehicle 236 00:11:15,249 --> 00:11:17,092 and seen police squad cars 237 00:11:17,176 --> 00:11:19,335 and motorcycles surrounding him. 238 00:11:19,420 --> 00:11:23,589 ♪ ♪ 239 00:11:23,674 --> 00:11:27,268 - In the complex web of local, state, and federal police, 240 00:11:27,428 --> 00:11:30,012 El Chapo can never be 100% sure 241 00:11:30,106 --> 00:11:33,191 who's clean and who's dirty. 242 00:11:33,275 --> 00:11:36,185 - He nervously asks his driver, "What's going on?" 243 00:11:36,278 --> 00:11:38,771 And he was reassured, "Don't worry, amigo. 244 00:11:38,856 --> 00:11:40,699 Those are our police." 245 00:11:40,858 --> 00:11:43,276 ♪ ♪ 246 00:11:43,369 --> 00:11:47,372 - He has his own corrupt Mexico City police officers 247 00:11:47,531 --> 00:11:51,042 form, essentially, a motorcade to prevent 248 00:11:51,201 --> 00:11:53,628 any other law enforcement from stopping Chapo, 249 00:11:53,713 --> 00:11:56,706 and Chapo winds up going to the safe house 250 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:59,125 and essentially starting up again. 251 00:11:59,209 --> 00:12:01,219 ♪ ♪ 252 00:12:01,378 --> 00:12:03,129 - So the fact that he was able to escape, 253 00:12:03,213 --> 00:12:05,131 waltz out of the maximum-security prison 254 00:12:05,224 --> 00:12:07,633 at Puente Grande in 2001 255 00:12:07,727 --> 00:12:09,385 creates the legend of Chapo 256 00:12:09,478 --> 00:12:11,563 as the uncatchable, the untouchable. 257 00:12:11,722 --> 00:12:14,566 ♪ ♪ 258 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:21,647 [dramatic music] 259 00:12:21,732 --> 00:12:25,401 ♪ ♪ 260 00:12:25,494 --> 00:12:27,403 - After his escape from this cell 261 00:12:27,488 --> 00:12:29,164 at Puente Grande, 262 00:12:29,248 --> 00:12:31,416 El Chapo manages to stay out of the grip 263 00:12:31,575 --> 00:12:35,411 of the Mexican government for more than a decade. 264 00:12:35,496 --> 00:12:38,831 - Even though El Chapo is living as a fugitive 265 00:12:38,916 --> 00:12:41,092 in the remote mountain hideouts 266 00:12:41,177 --> 00:12:44,253 that he has carved out of these valleys and peaks, 267 00:12:44,338 --> 00:12:49,258 he is able to really become the narcotrafficker 268 00:12:49,351 --> 00:12:51,436 that we think of him being today. 269 00:12:53,096 --> 00:12:57,776 In the few years after Guzmán escaped from Puente Grande 270 00:12:57,860 --> 00:13:02,280 and reignited his American cocaine 271 00:13:02,439 --> 00:13:05,274 and heroin distribution organization, 272 00:13:05,359 --> 00:13:09,445 he was able to get almost a billion dollars of cocaine 273 00:13:09,530 --> 00:13:12,707 to Chicago alone. 274 00:13:12,792 --> 00:13:17,962 - His empire grows by him doing what he's always done-- 275 00:13:18,047 --> 00:13:20,799 Trafficking ton quantities of drugs 276 00:13:20,883 --> 00:13:22,375 all over the world. 277 00:13:22,459 --> 00:13:24,469 [gunshots] 278 00:13:24,628 --> 00:13:26,462 - It was during this time that he decided 279 00:13:26,547 --> 00:13:28,807 that the way to control Mexico, 280 00:13:28,891 --> 00:13:30,725 the way to control drug trafficking, 281 00:13:30,884 --> 00:13:32,635 was to do it violently. 282 00:13:32,728 --> 00:13:34,554 So he went out from Sinaloa, 283 00:13:34,638 --> 00:13:36,564 which is on the western side of Mexico, 284 00:13:36,649 --> 00:13:41,143 and he sent his soldiers to places like Ciudad Juarez, 285 00:13:41,228 --> 00:13:43,062 Nuevo Laredo, Nuevo Leon, 286 00:13:43,146 --> 00:13:45,907 and you began to see these really bloody turf battles 287 00:13:45,991 --> 00:13:48,401 that hadn't existed in Mexico prior. 288 00:13:48,485 --> 00:13:51,487 You'd see these almost military-esque war zones 289 00:13:51,572 --> 00:13:52,664 break out. 290 00:13:52,748 --> 00:13:55,074 Gas stations would be set on fire. 291 00:13:55,158 --> 00:13:58,002 Innocent people would be caught in the crossfire. 292 00:13:58,161 --> 00:13:59,745 And it was really just remarkable 293 00:13:59,830 --> 00:14:04,175 to see these pockets of Mexico that had had peace for so long 294 00:14:04,260 --> 00:14:06,094 really just spiral out of control 295 00:14:06,178 --> 00:14:07,587 as a result of El Chapo's violence. 296 00:14:07,671 --> 00:14:10,339 ♪ ♪ 297 00:14:10,424 --> 00:14:13,935 - By 2014, both the Mexican and U.S. government 298 00:14:14,094 --> 00:14:17,680 want this guy back behind bars. 299 00:14:17,764 --> 00:14:19,849 The heat is on. 300 00:14:19,933 --> 00:14:21,851 - We just started climbing 301 00:14:21,935 --> 00:14:23,528 the ladder of the cartel hierarchy. 302 00:14:23,612 --> 00:14:25,771 We looked at our organizational chart 303 00:14:25,856 --> 00:14:28,774 and organized all efforts towards Chapo, 304 00:14:28,859 --> 00:14:31,619 because we were able to target him from multiple angles, 305 00:14:31,704 --> 00:14:33,946 not just one line of intelligence 306 00:14:34,031 --> 00:14:37,792 but we started targeting through his pilots, 307 00:14:37,877 --> 00:14:42,797 his sons and family members, his girlfriends, his spouses. 308 00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:47,969 - The FBI was able to identify and turn 309 00:14:48,128 --> 00:14:50,963 Guzmán's personal IT man, 310 00:14:51,048 --> 00:14:54,383 a young, twenty-something Colombian kid. 311 00:14:54,468 --> 00:14:58,146 And through this cooperation from the IT man, 312 00:14:58,230 --> 00:15:01,974 they hacked into his encrypted cell phone network. 313 00:15:02,059 --> 00:15:04,652 ♪ ♪ 314 00:15:04,737 --> 00:15:08,489 [tense music] 315 00:15:08,574 --> 00:15:13,077 - So we had Chapo's location down to a block radius. 316 00:15:13,162 --> 00:15:16,414 We knew he was holed up in a safe house, 317 00:15:16,573 --> 00:15:18,833 ad we ended up finding the safe house 318 00:15:18,992 --> 00:15:20,826 and hitting the door. 319 00:15:20,911 --> 00:15:23,755 [banging] 320 00:15:23,914 --> 00:15:26,758 - Chapo's secretary comes in and says 321 00:15:26,917 --> 00:15:28,760 that the Mexican military was there. 322 00:15:28,919 --> 00:15:31,420 And they can literally hear the banging 323 00:15:31,505 --> 00:15:33,589 on the steel-reinforced door 324 00:15:33,674 --> 00:15:35,675 that was covering the actual door 325 00:15:35,759 --> 00:15:36,842 to the safe house. 326 00:15:36,936 --> 00:15:38,844 [dramatic music] 327 00:15:38,929 --> 00:15:40,930 - They could see people moving in the windows 328 00:15:41,014 --> 00:15:43,608 hurriedly through the house. 329 00:15:43,767 --> 00:15:46,769 - So they immediately ran into the bathroom. 330 00:15:46,853 --> 00:15:51,440 ♪ ♪ 331 00:15:51,525 --> 00:15:53,117 - But the sneaky El Chapo 332 00:15:53,202 --> 00:15:56,037 is not dashing into the bathroom to hide. 333 00:15:56,121 --> 00:16:00,449 He's going to escape through a tunnel. 334 00:16:00,534 --> 00:16:03,294 - After pioneering the narco-tunnels, 335 00:16:03,379 --> 00:16:05,797 he realized it was just a cookie-cutter plan. 336 00:16:05,956 --> 00:16:08,299 He could use these as escape tunnels. 337 00:16:08,384 --> 00:16:10,876 - He's really kind of built up his tunnel game 338 00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:13,629 without a whole lot of people knowing about it. 339 00:16:13,714 --> 00:16:15,214 - On the night of the raid, 340 00:16:15,298 --> 00:16:19,644 Guzmán was able to escape this safe house into a tunnel, 341 00:16:19,728 --> 00:16:23,064 and that tunnel was hidden beneath a trap door 342 00:16:23,223 --> 00:16:25,316 under a false bathtub 343 00:16:25,475 --> 00:16:27,986 in the bathroom of the safe house. 344 00:16:28,145 --> 00:16:30,896 There was a switch on the bathroom wall, 345 00:16:30,981 --> 00:16:33,983 and if you took what was essentially a paper clip 346 00:16:34,076 --> 00:16:35,818 and you jammed the paper clip 347 00:16:35,911 --> 00:16:37,912 into the electrical outlet on the wall, 348 00:16:38,071 --> 00:16:42,408 it created an electric current that went around the seal 349 00:16:42,492 --> 00:16:45,161 and essentially burned out all the caulking 350 00:16:45,245 --> 00:16:47,663 that sealed the bathtub lid closed. 351 00:16:47,748 --> 00:16:51,250 And then you had to prop the bathtub lid open, 352 00:16:51,334 --> 00:16:55,004 and it kind of opened on a hydraulic hinge, 353 00:16:55,088 --> 00:16:57,423 and beneath that false top 354 00:16:57,507 --> 00:17:00,176 was the entrance to the tunnel 355 00:17:00,260 --> 00:17:02,261 and the ladder going down. 356 00:17:02,354 --> 00:17:03,929 It's remarkable. 357 00:17:04,014 --> 00:17:06,190 ♪ ♪ 358 00:17:06,349 --> 00:17:08,851 - Because of this quick escape plan, 359 00:17:08,935 --> 00:17:11,529 Chapo, his girlfriend, the secretary, 360 00:17:11,613 --> 00:17:13,448 and Chapo's cook, 361 00:17:13,532 --> 00:17:15,700 they all descended down the stairs 362 00:17:15,784 --> 00:17:19,111 into this network of tunnels, and they were able to escape 363 00:17:19,196 --> 00:17:20,946 before the Mexican Marines could get to them. 364 00:17:21,031 --> 00:17:22,782 ♪ ♪ 365 00:17:22,866 --> 00:17:25,367 - By the time that they got into the house, 366 00:17:25,452 --> 00:17:27,378 the house was completely empty. 367 00:17:27,463 --> 00:17:30,372 I got there, saw the reinforced steel door, 368 00:17:30,457 --> 00:17:33,459 and walked through the house, and came in through a bedroom, 369 00:17:33,543 --> 00:17:36,378 and there were clothes littered all over, 370 00:17:36,463 --> 00:17:38,214 and drug prescription bottles. 371 00:17:38,298 --> 00:17:42,134 - They found Chapo's diamond-encrusted pistol, 372 00:17:42,219 --> 00:17:46,305 with his initials on it. They found a bunch of drugs. 373 00:17:46,389 --> 00:17:48,307 They found, you know, every accoutrement 374 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,477 you would imagine a drug lord would have at the ready. 375 00:17:51,570 --> 00:17:54,980 - El Chapo's mastery of building secret tunnels 376 00:17:55,065 --> 00:17:57,241 has made him a rich man, 377 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,402 and helped him outrun the police. 378 00:18:00,496 --> 00:18:02,822 And if they ever catch him, 379 00:18:02,906 --> 00:18:05,324 it's a skill that could really come in handy. 380 00:18:05,408 --> 00:18:07,418 ♪ ♪ 381 00:18:11,924 --> 00:18:16,594 - In 2014, the bloodthirsty drug lord El Chapo 382 00:18:16,678 --> 00:18:19,171 is still on the I am. 383 00:18:19,264 --> 00:18:21,507 His reign of terror has left a trail of corpses 384 00:18:21,591 --> 00:18:24,260 all across Mexico. 385 00:18:24,344 --> 00:18:27,847 The Mexican government, along with the DEA, 386 00:18:27,931 --> 00:18:31,183 is doing everything it can to put him back behind bars. 387 00:18:31,276 --> 00:18:34,186 [dramatic music] 388 00:18:34,271 --> 00:18:37,690 - What Chapo decides to do is go to somewhere 389 00:18:37,774 --> 00:18:41,202 he feels he would be sort of inconspicuous, 390 00:18:41,286 --> 00:18:43,955 which is a beach town of Mazatlán. 391 00:18:44,114 --> 00:18:45,957 You know, it's a vacation destination. 392 00:18:46,116 --> 00:18:47,867 A lot of Americans vacation there. 393 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,128 So, it didn't seem like an obvious choice. 394 00:18:50,212 --> 00:18:52,463 He didn't go to one of his mountain warrens, 395 00:18:52,622 --> 00:18:53,965 which would be an obvious hiding place. 396 00:18:54,124 --> 00:18:56,876 He went somewhere that was completely out of the box. 397 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:02,047 ♪ ♪ 398 00:19:02,132 --> 00:19:04,725 They tracked down Chapo at Hotel Miramar, 399 00:19:04,885 --> 00:19:06,886 which is a tourist hotel. 400 00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:08,646 - I was in the front of the hotel at the time, 401 00:19:08,730 --> 00:19:10,389 and I heard, "We've got the target. 402 00:19:10,473 --> 00:19:13,225 We've got the target." And I drove my vehicle 403 00:19:13,310 --> 00:19:15,561 down into the underground parking garage. 404 00:19:15,645 --> 00:19:20,241 ♪ ♪ 405 00:19:20,325 --> 00:19:24,236 And I ran right up to him and just jumped in his face 406 00:19:24,321 --> 00:19:26,789 and said, "What's up, Chapo?" 407 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:30,501 It was, like, the first thing that came to me. 408 00:19:30,660 --> 00:19:32,336 Was just kind of all the excitement 409 00:19:32,495 --> 00:19:35,339 just rushing out. Couldn't believe it. 410 00:19:35,424 --> 00:19:38,751 - When El Chapo returns to prison, 411 00:19:38,844 --> 00:19:41,170 the Mexican government does not make the mistake 412 00:19:41,263 --> 00:19:44,840 of returning him to Puente Grande. 413 00:19:44,925 --> 00:19:47,009 He's getting locked up here, 414 00:19:47,093 --> 00:19:51,597 in Federal Social Readaptation Center Number Uno, 415 00:19:51,690 --> 00:19:54,150 AKA Altiplano. 416 00:19:55,694 --> 00:19:58,196 Altiplano is the most secure prison 417 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,105 in all of Mexico, 418 00:20:00,190 --> 00:20:02,617 and one of the toughest maximum-security prisons 419 00:20:02,701 --> 00:20:04,944 in the world. 420 00:20:05,037 --> 00:20:09,114 Not only is it a no-fly zone, its walls are thick enough 421 00:20:09,199 --> 00:20:12,284 to resist a full-scale military assault, 422 00:20:12,377 --> 00:20:15,713 cell phones don't work anywhere in the prison, 423 00:20:15,797 --> 00:20:19,375 and most important of all, in here, 424 00:20:19,468 --> 00:20:21,710 El Chapo is no longer being watched 425 00:20:21,803 --> 00:20:24,889 by guards his cartel can control. 426 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:31,720 Altiplano is considered impossible to escape. 427 00:20:31,805 --> 00:20:34,974 But with U.S. extradition hanging over his head, 428 00:20:35,058 --> 00:20:37,485 El Chapo wastes no time coming up with a plan 429 00:20:37,644 --> 00:20:39,478 to be the first person 430 00:20:39,562 --> 00:20:42,531 to break out of this formidable fortress. 431 00:20:45,068 --> 00:20:47,411 - The only way that Guzmán, 432 00:20:47,570 --> 00:20:49,154 once he was in prison at Altiplano, 433 00:20:49,239 --> 00:20:51,657 was able to communicate with the outside world 434 00:20:51,750 --> 00:20:54,493 was through people who were permitted to visit him there. 435 00:20:54,586 --> 00:20:57,329 And those people were essentially his lawyer, 436 00:20:57,422 --> 00:21:02,918 Oscar Lopez, and his third and much younger wife. 437 00:21:03,011 --> 00:21:04,845 - He coordinated with his wife, 438 00:21:04,930 --> 00:21:07,756 Emma Coronel, with his sons, 439 00:21:07,841 --> 00:21:10,434 who are known by the nickname Los Chapitos, 440 00:21:10,593 --> 00:21:13,354 that he wanted to put a plan into action. 441 00:21:13,513 --> 00:21:19,026 And so immediately, they began paying the appropriate bribes, 442 00:21:19,185 --> 00:21:20,778 getting the personnel lined up 443 00:21:20,937 --> 00:21:24,031 who are necessary to implement such a plan. 444 00:21:24,116 --> 00:21:26,117 - One key player is a familiar face 445 00:21:26,201 --> 00:21:28,452 from El Chapo's previous jailbreak. 446 00:21:30,205 --> 00:21:33,791 - After Guzmán's first escape from Puente Grande, 447 00:21:33,875 --> 00:21:37,628 Dámaso López was essentially blamed for it, 448 00:21:37,787 --> 00:21:40,873 and he was unemployable. He lost his job. 449 00:21:40,957 --> 00:21:44,460 He had nowhere to go, and ended taking a job 450 00:21:44,553 --> 00:21:47,888 with Guzmán and the Sinaloa Cartel. 451 00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:49,807 He rose in the ranks, and by the time 452 00:21:49,891 --> 00:21:52,301 that Guzmán was in prison a second time, 453 00:21:52,394 --> 00:21:54,645 at Altiplano, Dámaso López 454 00:21:54,804 --> 00:21:57,639 was more or less Guzmán's Chief of Staff. 455 00:21:57,733 --> 00:22:00,318 He was his true right-hand man, 456 00:22:00,477 --> 00:22:04,155 and really the guy who was running much 457 00:22:04,239 --> 00:22:09,577 of Guzmán's operations while Guzmán was in prison. 458 00:22:09,661 --> 00:22:12,404 - Even with all these people doing this bidding, 459 00:22:12,497 --> 00:22:16,000 El Chapo's escape is far from a sure thing. 460 00:22:16,159 --> 00:22:21,672 He's confined to this cell 23 hours a day, 461 00:22:21,831 --> 00:22:25,250 not allowed to take part in any prison sports 462 00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:27,511 or activities, 463 00:22:27,670 --> 00:22:32,433 and he can only have court-approved visitors. 464 00:22:32,517 --> 00:22:37,179 A GPS monitor is permanently strapped around his ankle. 465 00:22:37,263 --> 00:22:40,608 El Chapo knows he won't be able to roll out of the front door 466 00:22:40,692 --> 00:22:43,435 like he did at Puente Grande. 467 00:22:43,528 --> 00:22:47,439 Even worse, he's under constant video surveillance... 468 00:22:47,524 --> 00:22:50,034 ♪ ♪ 469 00:22:50,118 --> 00:22:54,455 By two Mexican national intelligence officers. 470 00:22:54,539 --> 00:22:57,449 El Chapo has finally met his match. 471 00:22:57,534 --> 00:22:59,543 ♪ ♪ 472 00:22:59,628 --> 00:23:00,953 Or has he? 473 00:23:01,037 --> 00:23:04,382 ♪ ♪ 474 00:23:04,466 --> 00:23:06,125 - This being El Chapo, a tunnel 475 00:23:06,209 --> 00:23:07,968 has to be part of the plan. 476 00:23:08,053 --> 00:23:12,464 But where are you going to tunnel from? 477 00:23:12,557 --> 00:23:17,395 - The plan was to first acquire a piece of property 478 00:23:17,479 --> 00:23:20,472 that was close enough to Altiplano 479 00:23:20,565 --> 00:23:22,891 that it would enable the construction of a tunnel 480 00:23:22,976 --> 00:23:26,404 into the prison, but not too close 481 00:23:26,488 --> 00:23:29,907 so as to attract the attention of any authorities. 482 00:23:29,991 --> 00:23:32,076 So there was first a search team 483 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,412 that was essentially a real estate team 484 00:23:34,571 --> 00:23:38,490 that went out looking for such a property. 485 00:23:38,583 --> 00:23:42,744 Altiplano stood on its own in essentially the midst 486 00:23:42,829 --> 00:23:48,592 of a vast agricultural region and was just a huge complex 487 00:23:48,677 --> 00:23:52,930 that emerged from this vast Mexican flatland. 488 00:23:53,089 --> 00:23:54,923 There was virtually nothing around it, 489 00:23:55,016 --> 00:23:57,843 minus a few small smatterings 490 00:23:57,927 --> 00:23:59,437 of villages. 491 00:23:59,521 --> 00:24:00,846 Within about a mile 492 00:24:00,939 --> 00:24:02,264 of the prisons gates 493 00:24:02,357 --> 00:24:04,683 was a vacant industrial site 494 00:24:04,767 --> 00:24:06,018 that perhaps had been used 495 00:24:06,102 --> 00:24:07,186 by some of the local farmers 496 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:08,279 at one point. 497 00:24:08,363 --> 00:24:10,364 Once the property was acquired, 498 00:24:10,523 --> 00:24:13,192 the engineering question 499 00:24:13,276 --> 00:24:17,196 of how to build this tunnel was breached. 500 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,781 ♪ ♪ 501 00:24:19,866 --> 00:24:21,533 - El Chapo's men are facing 502 00:24:21,618 --> 00:24:25,796 their most difficult engineering task ever: 503 00:24:25,955 --> 00:24:30,876 how do you break into a maximum-security prison? 504 00:24:30,969 --> 00:24:36,223 The walls are impenetrable, the guards are heavily armed, 505 00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:39,810 and the closed-circuit TV camera 506 00:24:39,895 --> 00:24:43,898 can see every inch of El Chapo's cell. 507 00:24:43,982 --> 00:24:48,644 Well, almost every inch. 508 00:24:48,728 --> 00:24:54,066 The shower drain is obscured by this half-wall. 509 00:24:54,150 --> 00:24:56,827 The only way to get in unnoticed 510 00:24:56,986 --> 00:25:01,499 is to dig a tunnel that opens up right here. 511 00:25:04,994 --> 00:25:06,420 ♪ ♪ 512 00:25:06,579 --> 00:25:08,163 - The foremost challenge 513 00:25:08,256 --> 00:25:11,917 that the escape crew had to face 514 00:25:12,010 --> 00:25:18,682 was how do we dig underground for what was essentially 515 00:25:18,767 --> 00:25:23,011 a mile, sightless, beneath the surface of the earth, 516 00:25:23,104 --> 00:25:26,106 scratching away at rock and dirt, 517 00:25:26,191 --> 00:25:29,193 to get directly to the target? 518 00:25:30,687 --> 00:25:33,531 - A one-mile tunnel, with the aim of it 519 00:25:33,690 --> 00:25:38,285 coming up directly in El Chapo's shower stall. 520 00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:40,195 How is it that they would know 521 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:44,449 exactly where his shower drain was? 522 00:25:44,534 --> 00:25:47,962 - Without some way to locate the shower stall, 523 00:25:48,121 --> 00:25:51,873 El Chapo's team is searching for a needle in a haystack. 524 00:25:51,958 --> 00:25:55,377 What he's asking for borders on impossible. 525 00:25:55,461 --> 00:25:58,556 ♪ ♪ 526 00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:08,223 [dramatic music] 527 00:26:08,308 --> 00:26:11,810 - Drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is locked up 528 00:26:11,894 --> 00:26:16,732 in a fortress--Altiplano maximum-security prison. 529 00:26:16,816 --> 00:26:19,577 But he has a plan to escape. 530 00:26:19,736 --> 00:26:23,497 A mile from here, outside the prison walls, 531 00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:26,575 his men are attempting to dig an underground passageway 532 00:26:26,668 --> 00:26:30,495 that leads to this exact spot. 533 00:26:30,580 --> 00:26:34,916 If their angle of measurement is off by a single degree, 534 00:26:35,001 --> 00:26:38,920 they'll miss the target by 92 feet. 535 00:26:39,005 --> 00:26:43,091 Somehow, they need to make sure 536 00:26:43,176 --> 00:26:48,096 they get from there to here, exactly. 537 00:26:48,181 --> 00:26:51,600 ♪ ♪ 538 00:26:51,693 --> 00:26:53,444 - Once you enter the warehouse, 539 00:26:53,603 --> 00:26:57,272 you see what looks like a sand floor. 540 00:26:57,365 --> 00:26:59,783 And so, you descend into a chamber 541 00:26:59,942 --> 00:27:01,785 that's supporting the sand floor 542 00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:03,203 with cinder blocks on the sides 543 00:27:03,363 --> 00:27:04,529 and a wooden ceiling. 544 00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:07,783 From there, you descend a further 30 feet 545 00:27:07,867 --> 00:27:10,619 to the actual tunnel. It's almost inconceivable 546 00:27:10,703 --> 00:27:13,455 that something like this could take place. 547 00:27:13,548 --> 00:27:15,716 This isn't tunneling below a wall 548 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,628 and emerging on the other side and making a break for it. 549 00:27:19,721 --> 00:27:22,389 This is a feat of coordination, 550 00:27:22,548 --> 00:27:24,800 structural engineering, 551 00:27:24,884 --> 00:27:28,553 planning, and bribery, the likes of which 552 00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:31,556 we haven't seen in the history of great escapes. 553 00:27:31,641 --> 00:27:33,975 How would you be able 554 00:27:34,060 --> 00:27:36,570 to pinpoint with such precision 555 00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:40,991 a 3x2-foot hole in the ground to know where to come up? 556 00:27:42,827 --> 00:27:44,328 [suspenseful music] 557 00:27:44,412 --> 00:27:49,491 - In January 2015, El Chapo comes up with a cunning plan 558 00:27:49,575 --> 00:27:52,411 to help his men find his cell. 559 00:27:52,495 --> 00:27:54,162 - The idea was, they were going to smuggle 560 00:27:54,247 --> 00:27:57,165 into the prison a GPS device, 561 00:27:57,250 --> 00:27:59,426 so that Chapo could turn it on 562 00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:02,087 and the people building this tunnel would know exactly 563 00:28:02,171 --> 00:28:04,339 where the other end of the tunnel needed to be. 564 00:28:04,424 --> 00:28:07,434 - At Altiplano, smuggling anything 565 00:28:07,593 --> 00:28:09,594 is next to impossible. 566 00:28:09,679 --> 00:28:11,346 ♪ ♪ 567 00:28:11,439 --> 00:28:13,107 - When you get into the prison, 568 00:28:13,266 --> 00:28:15,100 there's roughly half a dozen, 569 00:28:15,184 --> 00:28:18,353 perhaps more checkpoints you have to go through. 570 00:28:18,438 --> 00:28:21,273 You can't bring anything in that could potentially 571 00:28:21,357 --> 00:28:25,536 be used as a weapon or as a tool to escape. 572 00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:27,946 - El Chapo would have to risk it. 573 00:28:28,030 --> 00:28:31,283 There was no other way to move forward with the plan. 574 00:28:31,367 --> 00:28:35,287 So he enlisted the help of the people he trusted most. 575 00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:38,132 - Chapo's family members smuggled a watch to him 576 00:28:38,216 --> 00:28:41,793 that had a GPS locator on it. 577 00:28:41,878 --> 00:28:46,465 - And the digging crew was able to follow the signal 578 00:28:46,549 --> 00:28:48,976 that that watch emitted even underground, 579 00:28:49,135 --> 00:28:50,978 digging day after day, 580 00:28:51,137 --> 00:28:52,479 night after night, 581 00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:55,899 to reach that signal. 582 00:28:56,058 --> 00:28:59,153 - His GPS watch lets El Chapo's men know 583 00:28:59,312 --> 00:29:01,897 that their aim is true. 584 00:29:01,981 --> 00:29:05,159 But down here in the tunnel, 585 00:29:05,243 --> 00:29:07,578 there are other challenges to overcome. 586 00:29:10,573 --> 00:29:13,074 - You need air down there to breathe, 587 00:29:13,159 --> 00:29:14,501 or else you will asphyxiate. 588 00:29:14,586 --> 00:29:15,994 You're talking about a digging crew 589 00:29:16,087 --> 00:29:17,838 of 10 to 12 guys 590 00:29:17,997 --> 00:29:19,247 working in this thing. 591 00:29:19,332 --> 00:29:22,843 So they had to blow air into it and ventilate 592 00:29:22,927 --> 00:29:24,920 in order to survive. 593 00:29:25,013 --> 00:29:26,430 - They wind up lining the tunnel 594 00:29:26,514 --> 00:29:29,007 with thousands of feet of PVC pipe, 595 00:29:29,091 --> 00:29:32,186 and they have a compressor putting forced air 596 00:29:32,270 --> 00:29:34,513 through the tunnel so people could breathe inside. 597 00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:37,524 They also needed to outfit it with lights, 598 00:29:37,609 --> 00:29:39,601 so that it wasn't completely dark. 599 00:29:39,685 --> 00:29:41,779 To do that, you needed to have a generator. 600 00:29:41,863 --> 00:29:44,448 So they hide a generator in the building 601 00:29:44,532 --> 00:29:46,533 on the land that they've purchased, 602 00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:48,202 and they hide that generator 603 00:29:48,286 --> 00:29:50,445 by making it look like a barbecue pit. 604 00:29:50,530 --> 00:29:53,031 - It's a massive undertaking. 605 00:29:53,115 --> 00:29:57,878 ♪ ♪ 606 00:29:58,037 --> 00:30:02,549 - The scale of the endeavor boggles the mind--5,000 feet 607 00:30:02,708 --> 00:30:05,803 of PVC piping for ventilation, 608 00:30:05,887 --> 00:30:08,797 thousands of fluorescent light bulbs, 609 00:30:08,881 --> 00:30:11,049 moving over hundreds of thousands 610 00:30:11,133 --> 00:30:13,051 of pounds of dirt, 611 00:30:13,135 --> 00:30:15,720 and not be detected. 612 00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:18,890 - It was laid with a makeshift railroad track, 613 00:30:18,975 --> 00:30:24,404 atop which sat a kind of modified mining cart, 614 00:30:24,564 --> 00:30:25,814 which had been outfitted 615 00:30:25,898 --> 00:30:29,117 with the stripped-down frame of a motorcycle. 616 00:30:31,663 --> 00:30:32,830 - Chapo was very impatient. 617 00:30:32,914 --> 00:30:35,332 We now know that he was writing letters, 618 00:30:35,416 --> 00:30:36,825 saying, "Why is it taking so long?" 619 00:30:36,909 --> 00:30:38,743 And he was being told, "Compadre, 620 00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:41,421 this is not an easy job. We've got to get this right." 621 00:30:41,506 --> 00:30:43,915 But he was eager to get out of there as soon as possible. 622 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,094 ♪ ♪ 623 00:30:47,253 --> 00:30:48,670 - El Chapo gets the word 624 00:30:48,763 --> 00:30:51,181 that the tunnel is almost ready, 625 00:30:51,266 --> 00:30:54,768 and he gives word back about a special date 626 00:30:54,853 --> 00:30:57,437 he wants the escape to happen on. 627 00:30:57,522 --> 00:31:00,941 - Guzmán's plan was to have his escape from Altiplano 628 00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:05,186 fall on Saturday, July 4th. It was a Saturday that year. 629 00:31:05,271 --> 00:31:08,523 That was an important fact, because on weekends, 630 00:31:08,616 --> 00:31:10,859 Altiplano's prison staff was low. 631 00:31:10,943 --> 00:31:15,038 And he chose July 4th because he wanted to embarrass 632 00:31:15,123 --> 00:31:19,209 the American government--that he could break out of prison 633 00:31:19,294 --> 00:31:22,787 on America's greatest national holiday. 634 00:31:22,872 --> 00:31:24,873 It didn't quite work that way. 635 00:31:24,957 --> 00:31:28,135 They couldn't pull it off by Saturday, July 4th, 636 00:31:28,219 --> 00:31:30,295 and so they had to delay one week. 637 00:31:30,379 --> 00:31:33,974 ♪ ♪ 638 00:31:34,058 --> 00:31:36,635 - El Chapo isn't able to give the U.S. authorities 639 00:31:36,728 --> 00:31:40,472 the 4th of July fireworks show he was hoping for. 640 00:31:40,556 --> 00:31:43,483 But his own independence day is coming soon. 641 00:31:43,568 --> 00:31:47,404 On Saturday, July 11, 2015, 642 00:31:47,563 --> 00:31:49,814 his team will attempt to break through 643 00:31:49,899 --> 00:31:51,816 and whisk him away to freedom. 644 00:31:51,901 --> 00:31:54,244 ♪ ♪ 645 00:32:00,418 --> 00:32:03,170 [tense music] 646 00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:05,088 - After almost a year of waiting, 647 00:32:05,247 --> 00:32:08,667 the big night for Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán 648 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,177 is finally here. 649 00:32:10,336 --> 00:32:14,681 He will be attempting to break out of Altiplano prison. 650 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,019 - A video exists of Guzmán on the night of the escape, 651 00:32:19,103 --> 00:32:21,104 taken by prison authorities. 652 00:32:21,263 --> 00:32:23,607 And you can see him in his cell, 653 00:32:23,691 --> 00:32:27,352 lounging on his bed, listening to what seems to be 654 00:32:27,445 --> 00:32:30,948 a television comedy show in a digital tablet. 655 00:32:31,032 --> 00:32:33,367 You can literally here the laughter 656 00:32:33,451 --> 00:32:36,286 and applause as he sits there waiting. 657 00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:38,279 Every once in a while, he gets up, 658 00:32:38,373 --> 00:32:40,040 he kind of paces around the room, 659 00:32:40,124 --> 00:32:42,960 he sits back down, listens to his comedy show. 660 00:32:43,044 --> 00:32:44,869 - You can hear, in the background, 661 00:32:44,954 --> 00:32:46,296 you know, really loud television, 662 00:32:46,455 --> 00:32:49,290 which you can tell is trying to cover up this banging 663 00:32:49,375 --> 00:32:52,135 and clanging sound of the workers 664 00:32:52,294 --> 00:32:53,878 digging up the floor of his cell. 665 00:32:53,963 --> 00:32:55,213 [banging] 666 00:32:55,297 --> 00:32:57,891 ♪ ♪ 667 00:32:57,976 --> 00:32:59,059 - It's at that point 668 00:32:59,143 --> 00:33:01,052 that Guzmán sits on the edge of his bed, 669 00:33:01,137 --> 00:33:03,397 puts on his shoes, gets up, 670 00:33:03,481 --> 00:33:06,808 and walks into the shower cell, 671 00:33:06,892 --> 00:33:09,152 the only place in the entire cell 672 00:33:09,311 --> 00:33:11,980 that is obscured from view by a video camera 673 00:33:12,064 --> 00:33:14,741 because obviously, they gave him some semblance 674 00:33:14,826 --> 00:33:16,243 of privacy while he was bathing. 675 00:33:16,327 --> 00:33:19,904 - You can see him pacing back and forth in the cell, 676 00:33:19,989 --> 00:33:22,165 and then all of a sudden walking into the shower, 677 00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:23,408 and then he's gone. 678 00:33:23,492 --> 00:33:25,577 ♪ ♪ 679 00:33:25,670 --> 00:33:30,832 - Guzmán goes into a hole that has been punctured 680 00:33:30,925 --> 00:33:33,334 in the bottom of his shower cell 681 00:33:33,419 --> 00:33:35,595 by the conspirators underground. 682 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,841 He climbs down a makeshift ladder 15 to 20 feet. 683 00:33:39,925 --> 00:33:42,686 He is met by his wife's brother. 684 00:33:44,188 --> 00:33:46,857 Guzmán is said to have climbed on the motorcycle. 685 00:33:46,941 --> 00:33:48,016 It kicks into life. 686 00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:51,853 It spirits him away a mile forward 687 00:33:51,937 --> 00:33:54,272 to the exit of the tunnel. 688 00:33:54,356 --> 00:33:59,036 He is taken up a ladder on the safe side. 689 00:33:59,195 --> 00:34:01,538 - When he gets to the cinder block house, 690 00:34:01,622 --> 00:34:06,117 there's an ATV waiting to speed him away quickly 691 00:34:06,202 --> 00:34:07,544 from the scene of the crime. 692 00:34:07,703 --> 00:34:11,048 - It takes almost 40 minutes before the guards realize 693 00:34:11,207 --> 00:34:14,301 that he's gone and go into his cell. 694 00:34:14,385 --> 00:34:17,137 - Cell number 20 sits empty 695 00:34:17,296 --> 00:34:21,975 as a shocked security officer radios in to his commander. 696 00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:23,143 [alarms blare] 697 00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:26,137 The alarms goes off at Altiplano. 698 00:34:26,222 --> 00:34:28,306 But it's too late. 699 00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:33,236 El Chapo is on the move, with a serious head start. 700 00:34:36,324 --> 00:34:38,075 - He is driven through the night 701 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:40,819 to a waiting semi, 702 00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:42,821 18-wheel truck. 703 00:34:42,905 --> 00:34:47,826 ♪ ♪ 704 00:34:47,910 --> 00:34:52,005 The truck drives him two hours from the town of Toluca, 705 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,999 where Altiplano prison is, to a much smaller town, 706 00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:56,751 San Juan, Queretaro, 707 00:34:56,836 --> 00:35:01,506 where he is placed aboard a small private plane 708 00:35:01,590 --> 00:35:06,353 flown by one of his most trusted and favorite pilots. 709 00:35:06,437 --> 00:35:08,522 - Shouldn't surprise us that El Chapo, by this point, 710 00:35:08,606 --> 00:35:11,108 is taking every precaution possible, 711 00:35:11,267 --> 00:35:13,860 including making sure that there's not one 712 00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:16,855 but two planes ready to spirit him away to safety, 713 00:35:16,948 --> 00:35:18,189 one as a decoy, 714 00:35:18,282 --> 00:35:20,775 and one that will actually carry him to freedom. 715 00:35:20,860 --> 00:35:22,527 ♪ ♪ 716 00:35:22,611 --> 00:35:24,454 - And his plane spirits him away 717 00:35:24,539 --> 00:35:27,541 from the Mexican flatlands 718 00:35:27,625 --> 00:35:32,036 back to his home base in the Sinaloa mountains, 719 00:35:32,121 --> 00:35:36,049 to his sort of most secure private hideaway, 720 00:35:36,208 --> 00:35:38,635 known as the Sky. 721 00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:44,549 - Watching the video, it's just incredible 722 00:35:44,633 --> 00:35:46,050 the amount of noise that was happening, 723 00:35:46,135 --> 00:35:49,304 the amount of drilling and banging that could be heard. 724 00:35:49,388 --> 00:35:53,808 And nobody raised a head. Nobody lifted a finger. 725 00:35:53,893 --> 00:35:57,487 Nobody questioned as to why that was happening. 726 00:35:57,646 --> 00:36:00,157 So it's pretty remarkable, but, really, 727 00:36:00,241 --> 00:36:01,983 expected at this point in time. 728 00:36:02,076 --> 00:36:04,903 He escaped Puente Grande in 2001. 729 00:36:04,987 --> 00:36:07,831 He escaped law enforcement for 13 years. 730 00:36:07,990 --> 00:36:10,250 He escaped us during our operation, 731 00:36:10,409 --> 00:36:11,910 out of his safe house. 732 00:36:11,994 --> 00:36:15,255 And now you put him in a maximum-security prison 733 00:36:15,339 --> 00:36:19,250 in Mexico, and you think that he's going to be secure? 734 00:36:19,335 --> 00:36:20,844 I don't think so. 735 00:36:20,928 --> 00:36:23,504 I think it was probably inevitable. 736 00:36:23,589 --> 00:36:26,591 I had some initial shock when he broke out. 737 00:36:26,684 --> 00:36:30,094 But went right back into "let's go get this guy. 738 00:36:30,179 --> 00:36:31,930 "He's done this before to us. 739 00:36:32,014 --> 00:36:35,192 Let's mount up the team and get after him." 740 00:36:35,276 --> 00:36:40,855 - Following this escape, El Chapo attempts to resume 741 00:36:40,940 --> 00:36:44,868 his regular activities, but now it's not as easy. 742 00:36:44,952 --> 00:36:48,613 This escape is a significant embarrassment 743 00:36:48,697 --> 00:36:52,200 to the Mexican government, who had, only a year before, 744 00:36:52,284 --> 00:36:55,545 trumpeted his capture as a major accomplishment 745 00:36:55,704 --> 00:36:58,215 in the nation's war on drugs and crime. 746 00:36:58,374 --> 00:37:00,708 That only adds fuel to the fire 747 00:37:00,793 --> 00:37:04,387 to try to see him apprehended once again. 748 00:37:04,546 --> 00:37:06,881 - There doesn't seem to be a prison in Mexico 749 00:37:06,966 --> 00:37:10,143 that can hold El Chapo for good. 750 00:37:10,228 --> 00:37:13,137 Once again, he has escaped. 751 00:37:13,222 --> 00:37:16,975 And now, for the third time, the chase is on. 752 00:37:17,059 --> 00:37:19,361 ♪ ♪ 753 00:37:23,741 --> 00:37:25,900 - It's 2015. 754 00:37:25,985 --> 00:37:28,912 El Chapo leaves Mexican authorities in shock 755 00:37:29,071 --> 00:37:31,831 by escaping through a mile-long tunnel 756 00:37:31,991 --> 00:37:35,252 under Altiplano prison. 757 00:37:35,411 --> 00:37:37,829 Embarrassed by their inability to keep El Chapo 758 00:37:37,922 --> 00:37:39,414 under lock and key, 759 00:37:39,498 --> 00:37:41,341 the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency 760 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:43,668 and the Mexican Marines 761 00:37:43,761 --> 00:37:46,680 are more determined than ever to bring him 762 00:37:46,839 --> 00:37:49,766 to justice on U.S. soil. 763 00:37:51,593 --> 00:37:53,845 - For days now, we have been trying to gain entry 764 00:37:53,938 --> 00:37:56,597 into that home where El Chapo is said to have emerged. 765 00:37:56,682 --> 00:37:58,433 We finally... I had, at the time, 766 00:37:58,517 --> 00:38:01,695 a very high-level source in the Mexican government 767 00:38:01,779 --> 00:38:04,364 who gave me the initial heads up that he had escaped. 768 00:38:04,523 --> 00:38:06,691 When I got down to the tunnel, the first thing I noticed 769 00:38:06,775 --> 00:38:10,620 was a discarded Coca-Cola can, and it made it so humanizing. 770 00:38:10,705 --> 00:38:12,455 Like, the men that had been working to build this 771 00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:15,867 were drinking Coca-Colas and tossing their trash aside. 772 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,629 It was like being in this live-action museum. 773 00:38:19,788 --> 00:38:22,623 There was this overwhelming odor of gasoline, 774 00:38:22,708 --> 00:38:24,459 and the motorcycle still had a half 775 00:38:24,543 --> 00:38:26,210 a tank of gasoline in it, 776 00:38:26,295 --> 00:38:29,139 so it was just like El Chapo had just been here, 777 00:38:29,223 --> 00:38:30,557 and it gives me goosebumps to think, 778 00:38:30,716 --> 00:38:31,966 just a few days before, 779 00:38:32,051 --> 00:38:34,302 the most notorious drug trafficker in the world 780 00:38:34,386 --> 00:38:35,887 was standing right where I was standing. 781 00:38:35,971 --> 00:38:37,814 ♪ ♪ 782 00:38:37,973 --> 00:38:41,809 - After Guzmán's escape from Altiplano, 783 00:38:41,902 --> 00:38:44,571 the U.S. law enforcement agents 784 00:38:44,730 --> 00:38:46,397 and the Mexican Marines, 785 00:38:46,482 --> 00:38:49,233 who had spent all of that time and energy 786 00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:51,569 to put him into Altiplano in the first place, 787 00:38:51,662 --> 00:38:53,988 were devastated. 788 00:38:54,073 --> 00:38:55,832 - My initial reaction was shock, 789 00:38:55,991 --> 00:38:57,500 but I was too far gone at this point. 790 00:38:57,585 --> 00:38:58,918 We all were, really. 791 00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:00,495 But thankfully, the Mexican Marines 792 00:39:00,588 --> 00:39:03,081 had our blueprint of intelligence, 793 00:39:03,165 --> 00:39:05,583 and picked that back up and got back after it. 794 00:39:05,667 --> 00:39:07,510 And it didn't take them long to track him down, 795 00:39:07,669 --> 00:39:09,179 because he really had nowhere to go. 796 00:39:09,263 --> 00:39:11,598 [suspenseful music] 797 00:39:11,682 --> 00:39:14,517 - The Mexican government availed itself 798 00:39:14,676 --> 00:39:18,846 of a very sophisticated Israeli technology 799 00:39:18,931 --> 00:39:20,431 called Pegasus, 800 00:39:20,516 --> 00:39:23,267 this super-secret surveillance technology 801 00:39:23,352 --> 00:39:24,685 that essentially uses 802 00:39:24,779 --> 00:39:26,863 what are known as Trojan horses 803 00:39:26,947 --> 00:39:31,025 to enter the target of an investigation's cell phone. 804 00:39:31,110 --> 00:39:34,537 Operation: Black Swan was the Mexican Marine 805 00:39:34,622 --> 00:39:38,032 and Mexican intelligence operation 806 00:39:38,117 --> 00:39:41,285 that made Guzmán its high-priority target 807 00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:43,380 once he escaped. 808 00:39:43,464 --> 00:39:45,039 - He's still feared. 809 00:39:45,124 --> 00:39:47,467 He carries this mysticism to him, 810 00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:49,719 almost this legendary status, 811 00:39:49,878 --> 00:39:52,806 because for so many years, he was in hiding. 812 00:39:52,965 --> 00:39:56,309 Everyone knew that this was the man that was responsible 813 00:39:56,468 --> 00:39:59,971 for the violence in Mexico. But no one knew where he was. 814 00:40:00,055 --> 00:40:03,391 No one seemed to know how to catch up to him. 815 00:40:03,475 --> 00:40:06,561 And that made him an even more legendary figure. 816 00:40:06,645 --> 00:40:09,480 - He escaped on July 11, 2015, 817 00:40:09,565 --> 00:40:13,743 and then he's recaptured again on January 8, 2016. 818 00:40:16,905 --> 00:40:18,498 ♪ ♪ 819 00:40:18,582 --> 00:40:20,333 - He winds up getting taken right back 820 00:40:20,492 --> 00:40:23,211 to the same Altiplano prison that he just escaped from. 821 00:40:24,913 --> 00:40:27,165 - Chapo was not deterred by being 822 00:40:27,249 --> 00:40:29,000 re-recaptured, as we called it. 823 00:40:29,084 --> 00:40:31,511 He was gonna try to escape again. 824 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:33,254 - He hasn't given up at all. 825 00:40:33,338 --> 00:40:36,340 Nunez testifies that the very next month, 826 00:40:36,425 --> 00:40:37,592 after he's recaptured, 827 00:40:37,685 --> 00:40:39,927 Chapo's family reaches back out to him and says, 828 00:40:40,020 --> 00:40:41,262 "We gotta give this another go." 829 00:40:41,355 --> 00:40:44,682 He receives another $100,000 as a down payment 830 00:40:44,766 --> 00:40:46,517 to buy yet another property. 831 00:40:46,610 --> 00:40:48,778 The idea was, they were gonna do it all over again. 832 00:40:48,863 --> 00:40:51,355 A few months later, the Mexican authorities 833 00:40:51,449 --> 00:40:54,701 wind up moving Chapo from Altiplano prison 834 00:40:54,785 --> 00:40:56,694 to a prison right across the Rio Grande 835 00:40:56,778 --> 00:40:58,362 from El Paso, Texas, 836 00:40:58,447 --> 00:41:02,459 and there he stays until January 19, 2017, 837 00:41:02,543 --> 00:41:04,377 when he's brought to the United States. 838 00:41:04,536 --> 00:41:05,795 [camera shutters clicking] 839 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,789 [reporters whistle, shout] 840 00:41:08,874 --> 00:41:11,792 [dramatic music] 841 00:41:11,877 --> 00:41:13,470 ♪ ♪ 842 00:41:17,716 --> 00:41:19,884 Given his history of escapes, 843 00:41:19,968 --> 00:41:23,304 I wasn't entirely sure that he would make it 844 00:41:23,388 --> 00:41:25,890 until he actually landed in New York City 845 00:41:25,974 --> 00:41:28,485 and I was there in the courtroom with him. 846 00:41:28,569 --> 00:41:30,478 And even then, there were moments. 847 00:41:30,562 --> 00:41:31,821 We were all in court one day, 848 00:41:31,906 --> 00:41:33,731 and all of a sudden, with no warning, 849 00:41:33,815 --> 00:41:36,242 the power to the courthouse cuts out, 850 00:41:36,327 --> 00:41:38,077 and we're all sitting in darkness. 851 00:41:38,162 --> 00:41:40,905 Someone in the gallery yells, "He's gone!" 852 00:41:40,998 --> 00:41:44,167 And I have to say, for a fraction of a second, 853 00:41:44,251 --> 00:41:46,586 I wondered if Chapo had pulled off 854 00:41:46,670 --> 00:41:48,663 probably the most elaborate escape possible. 855 00:41:48,747 --> 00:41:50,507 But then the power comes back on, 856 00:41:50,666 --> 00:41:52,667 and Chapo's sitting right there 857 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,512 at counsel's table, smiling. 858 00:41:55,596 --> 00:42:00,183 - In the end, El Chapo is not able to escape U.S. justice. 859 00:42:00,267 --> 00:42:02,769 - Chapo Guzmán was convicted on all counts, 860 00:42:02,853 --> 00:42:06,097 and ultimately he was sentenced to life plus 30 years, 861 00:42:06,181 --> 00:42:09,776 and he's now residing in Florence, Colorado, 862 00:42:09,935 --> 00:42:11,361 in the supermax prison. 863 00:42:13,438 --> 00:42:19,110 - Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is an evil genius. 864 00:42:19,194 --> 00:42:22,121 He ran the biggest drug cartel in the world, 865 00:42:22,281 --> 00:42:24,448 made billions of dollars, 866 00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:27,293 and organized massive clandestine operations 867 00:42:27,378 --> 00:42:31,047 to build tunnels, like this one. 868 00:42:31,206 --> 00:42:36,302 His biggest fear-- Landing in U.S. custody. 869 00:42:36,387 --> 00:42:39,547 But today, that's exactly where he is. 870 00:42:39,631 --> 00:42:42,392 A supermax prison in Colorado 871 00:42:42,476 --> 00:42:47,138 nicknamed the Alcatraz of the Rockies. 872 00:42:47,222 --> 00:42:50,391 He spends his days in solitary confinement 873 00:42:50,475 --> 00:42:54,645 and has almost no contact with the outside world. 874 00:42:54,730 --> 00:42:57,815 Authorities believe they finally found a prison 875 00:42:57,908 --> 00:43:00,318 he cannot escape. 876 00:43:00,402 --> 00:43:04,247 But with someone like El Chapo, 877 00:43:04,406 --> 00:43:07,250 it's important to never say "never."