'El Chapo,' Trump among favorite Halloween getups in Mexico

[Omaha Steve]

In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015 photo, two versions of latex masks in the likeness of Republican presidential candidate, real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump, sit on a table in the Caretas REV costume maker's plant, in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The company, which ships its costumes to Mexico and the U.S., is gearing up for the Halloween season with two new and very popular products: The Donald Trump mask, and the El Chapo costume, representing the mustachioed, twice-escaped drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman. (AP Photo/Tony Rivera)


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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two of the hottest Halloween costumes in Mexico this year are the country's most wanted man — and its most hated.

Striped prison jumpers and detailed latex masks representing the mustachioed, twice-escaped drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman are selling like hotcakes ahead of the late October holiday, Diego Esponda, CEO of costume maker Caretas REV, said Thursday.

Caretas, which operates a small factory in the city of Cuernavaca, has produced more than 2,600 "El Chapo" masks this month, with many of them being exported to the United States and Canada.

Besides brutal killings and the shipment of huge quantities of narcotics to the United States by his organization, the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel is notorious for breaking out of a maximum-security Mexican prison not once but twice. The most recent was in July when he fled from his prison cell through a sophisticated mile-long (1½-kilometer) tunnel.

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