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Extra! La Razon On Chapo Prison Tunnel

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La Razon de Mexico, July 13

"He left by this hole," reads the front page of La Razon de Mexico"s Monday edition, a day after Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman's escaped for the second time from a ­maximum security prison.

Guzman — who already escaped from another Mexican maximum security prison in 2001, with the help of prison guards — had been incarcerated for the last 18 months in the Altiplano federal facility, in the Santa Juana neighborhood of Almoloya de Juárez, in the State of Mexico Altiplano.

According to the Mexican daily, the head of the Sinaloa cartel had only been in prison for four months when he began plotting his underground getaway; on Sunday, Guzman broke out of the facility through a hole dug in his shower area that led to a mile-long tunnel.

ABOUT THE SOURCE: La Razon de Mexico is a daily newspaper headquartered in Mexico City.

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How Argentina Has Become China's Foothold In Latin America

China has become one of Argentina's most important trading partners and is increasing its military bases in the country. As China seeks to challenge the liberal world order, Argentina risks rifts with other key allies.

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President of Argentina Alberto Fernández and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in November 2022

*Rubén M. Perina

-Analysis-

BUENOS AIRES — There was a media furore worldwide in February over the sighting and subsequent downing of mysterious Chinese balloons by the U.S. coastline. The unnerving affair naturally raised a question mark in countries beyond the United States.

Here in Argentina, currently run by a leftist administration with leanings toward Russia and China, we might pertinently wonder whether or not the secretive Chinese base set up in the province of Neuquén in the west of the country in 2015-17 had anything to do with the communist superpower's less-than-festive balloons. It is difficult to say, of course, given the scarcity of information on the base, but the incidents are an opportunity to revise China's presence in Argentina.

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