The President of Mexico Says El Chapo Has Been Captured (Again)

Misión cumplida: lo tenemos. Quiero informar a los mexicanos que Joaquín Guzmán Loera ha sido detenido.

— Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN)January 8, 2016

Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Sinaloa cartel boss known as "El Chapo" (or "Shorty') who pioneered the use of underground tunnels in the drug trade and has escaped from authorities multiple times, was captured again on Friday, according to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Via the AP:

"An official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be quoted by name said Guzman was apprehended after a shootout with Mexican marines in the city of Los Mochis, in Guzman's home state of Sinaloa."

For the sake of Peña Nieto's health—he famously said after El Chapo was captured in 2014 that another escape would be "unpardonable"—let's hope he stays caught this time.

In July, El Chapo made headlines across the planet for disappearing into a tunnel beneath the shower in his supposedly impregnable prison cell. A spate of firings and arrests of security officials and staff followed, as his latest sortie was a testament to an enduring culture of corruption in Mexican law enforcement.