Mexico’s president has put El Chapo’s house up for sale
But will anyone bid for it?
IF THE POPULARITY of the Netflix series “Narcos: Mexico” is anything to go by, people would jump at the chance to own a former abode of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a notorious Mexican drug lord better known as “El Chapo”. It was from this house in Culiacán, in the north-western Mexican state of Sinaloa, that the kingpin escaped capture in 2014, fleeing through a tunnel under the bathroom floor as the Mexican marines stormed in. (He was subsequently captured and extradited to the United States, where he is serving a life sentence.)
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “A bad lot”
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