Some people think he walked out of the front door of the prison, while others don’t think he ws even there at all.
MEXICO CITY — When Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, Joaquín Guzman, escaped from prison last month, he walked out of captivity and straight into the conspiracy-obsessed imaginations of his countrymen, who are willing, it seems, to believe almost anything except what their government tells them.
The official version of the escape is that Guzman, who is known as El Chapo, or Shorty, slipped through a hole in the floor of the shower of his cell and then out through a mile-long tunnel secretly dug under the walls of what was supposed to be the country’s most secure prison.