Mexico interior minister down but not out after Guzman jailbreak


  • World
  • Wednesday, 22 Jul 2015

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Humiliated by the escape of Mexico's most wanted criminal from a maximum security prison, President Enrique Pena Nieto is under pressure from across the political spectrum to replace his interior minister. But party considerations may stay his hand..

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's July 11 jail break through a mile-long tunnel that surfaced right in his cell turned one of Pena Nieto's greatest successes - the drug lord's arrest in February 2014 - into a huge defeat.

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