Watch The Raid That Led To El Chapo's Capture

Around 4 a.m. on February 17, 2014, DEA agents and Mexican marines launched an operation to capture Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. They had tracked El Chapo to a safe house in the city of Culiacán, and the raid began when the marines started hammering on his front door with a battering ram.

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[kushkeith]

The beginning looks like a bunch of dudes waiting for an airsoft match to start

[musiccity]

Way to go vice. Block the Marines faces but fully expose the guy helping the Marines open the tub. R.I.P Familia

[philipkvamme]

For anyone wondering, carlos ramirez ( known as el condor)was the guy who showes the police the bathtub. He was instructed by el chapo to do that and he was one of el chapos closest men. He is not dead and he is out of prison, he probably has gone back to the Sinaloa cartel. «Edit: he is not out of prison, he serves a long sentence in a high security prison. He was captured a little bit before chapo.

[RichardsWorld]

They were giving El Chapo the extra 10 minutes of time that he prepaid for.

[atodaso]

Last person to go down the tunnel with elchapo had 1 job.

CLOSE THE TUB HATCH

[mentugo]

What's the point having a tunnel under your bathtub installed and then leaving it wide open while you escape?

[bobingalls]

Wow, respect to whoever built and installed that door.

[yagoovirus]

Random person: these things only happens in movie

El chapo: hold my beer

[ryu]

R.I.P to the worker showing his escape routes, and his family

[gamingwithhank]

That dude that showed them how to open the tub is 100% dead.

[mcjazz]

And now the man who showed how to
Open the tunnels whole family is dead

[jmfisher]

Looks like road construction. 23 guys standing around. 1 working it!

[rueben-]

Pretty late, but the reason those doors took so long to break down was because Chapo had his engineers redirect the cooling system to enter the doors. Battering rams work the way where it heats up the door to the point of weakening it. With the cooling system redirected, it defeats the purpose of the battering ram. This man may be evil, but he's sure as hell smart.

[Ryan]

To the people whining about how they showed the guy's face:

1. It's called witness protection.. He's literally a worker at El Chapo's safe house. He automatically gets top priority for protection obviously if needed. For example there's loads of people *still* being protected by the government just because they testified in the El Chapo trial and the court wanted to put on a big show by having all these colorful witnesses and stories. They handout heavy government protection left and right to these people.

2. The cartel obviously already knows who was in that house. This video doesn't tell the cartel anything they don't already know. They're not incompetent or unorganized and they plan for these typical outcomes. Besides, El Chapo is reportedly the one who told him to show them the tub in the first place. He did as he was instructed and from what I understand this guy actually ended up in prison.

[Peace_and_Love_.....]

Nice job showing the guys face and him physically opening the tub for the military... that guy has a family and they do not deserve the danger of being a target all because you all decided to show his face.. unbelievable.

[mr.mackey]

Man y'all got the homie and his family killed for not blurring his face.

[maozedong]

El Chapo got more tunnels than Super Mario!!

[hanh]

"A witness claimed he was naked at the time"

Producers who plans on making a Netflix adaptation: Write that down! write that down!

[deangelo.]

My mans got a whole damn gta lobby waiting out the house 💀💯

[osidec]

His favorite pistol has Diamonds.... my favorite pencil only has bite marks.