Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was
dead Thursday. Now he's not.
The Mexican drug boss apparently is
alive and well, and probably laughing at thousands of Twitter users and even
government officials who reported otherwise.
He was never really
dead, or even in peril, but the rumors of his demise started slowly
on Thursday thanks to journalists in Guatemala and Mexico.
An email exchange about an incident in
the remote jungle region of El Peten that might have involved El Chapo
began to permeate diplomatic circles.
The Interior Minister of Guatemala told
journalists that a firefight between drug dealers and the military had resulted
in the death of two suspected criminals.
