Yep, it’s time for the online version of Where’s Waldo again.
“El Chapo”: Drug boss’s son accidentally reveals fugitive’s location on Twitter (independent.co.uk).
“Mexican drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán may be in hiding in Costa Rica, after the fugitive’s son appeared to reveal his location on Twitter by accident. Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar tweeted a photo of himself and his father eating at a restaurant, but seemed to forget about Twitter’s location function which automatically tags where an image is taken.”
Undoubtedly he will have dined and been seen at every Taco Bell in Costa Rica and skipped off on a motorcycle on waterskies before Mexican marines and DEA arrive to attempt pick him up.
U.S. Government helped rise of Mexican drug cartel: Report (time.com, Jan. 2014).
Updates/Follow Ups
10th September 2015
Is “El Chapo” in Costa Rica? Maybe… maybe not (msn.com).
“The Mexican attorney general’s office would only say on Tuesday that it was investigating the authenticity of the tweet. But Costa Rican authorities voiced doubts that Guzman, 58, was relaxing in their country. Instead, they said, he is probably in another ‘Costa Rica’: The town of Costa Rica, Sinaloa, which is Guzman’s home state.
“‘It’s over there in Sinaloa. We have no information that this boy, the son of El Chapo, is in the country,’ Costa Rica’s judicial police director Gerald Campos told reporters.
Two US Drug Enforcement Administration officials told AFP in July that following his jailbreak, Guzman probably scurried to his Sinaloa mountain stronghold, where he enjoys the protection of the local population.”
Obviously showing an issue with Twitter’s geolocator that some living in Paris, Texas may potentially be taking romantic European adventure advantage of too with pictures of them with a striped shirt, string of onions around their neck and a beret.
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