Saturday, April 18, 2009

Remote Mexican town denies being drug lord's home

MEXICO CITY – A Roman Catholic bishop's revelation that "everybody knows" that Mexico's most-wanted drug lord lives in a remote mountain town in northern Mexico has taken officials there by surprise.

Durango Bishop Hector Gonzalez Martinez told local media that the alleged leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel leader lived around Guanacevi, and that "everybody knows it except the authorities."

A police commander in the town of Guanacevi says there is in no indication that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is in the old mining town in northern Durango state.

Town police commander Arturo Gonzalez said Saturday that he has never seen evidence Guzman was there.

There is a $2.1 million reward for information leading to Guzman's capture.

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