Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Bribed Otto Pérez? Drug Lord Allegedly Paid Former Guatemalan President $1

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Latin Times

Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Bribed Otto Pérez? Drug Lord Allegedly Paid Former Guatemalan President $1.5 Million
By Cedar Attanasio | Sep 08 2015, 07:29PM EDT

Guatemala’s former president is behind bars on corruption allegations, while Mexico’s most notorious cartel leader is on the loose. Their stories collided in a Guatemalan courtroom on Tuesday as former president Otto Pérez Molina defended himself against fraud, bribery and other charges. To illustrate his incorruptibility, the former general retold a story about coming head-head with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán-Loera when the alleged Sinaloa Cartel was arrested in Guatemala in 1993.

"I want to mention that in the 1990s I directed an operation that led to the capture of the most wanted narcotrafficker in the work, known as Chapo Guzmán,” said Pérez.

Guatemalan officials handed El Chapo over to Mexican police after Pérez’s team arrested the narcotrafficker, but he soon escaped. Rearrested in February of 2014, the cartel leader escaped again in July of 2015. His whereabouts are unknown.

“You can imagine what he did when we caught him (in 1993): the first thing he did was negotiate,” said Pérez, who said that he rejected a $1.5 million dollar bribe that Guzmán allegedly offered for his freedom.

Read more: http://www.latintimes.com/joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-bribed-otto-perez-drug-lord-allegedly-paid-former-guatemalan-338763

[forest444]

1. Life imitating art.

[Chan790]

2. I know the rules of LBN regarding headlines...but this might justify an exception.

I know they have to be identical...but the "identical" headline truncates for length between the "1" and the "." of "$1.5 Million" giving the impression to headline scanners that the former Guatemalan President was a cheap date, so to speak. It really changes the context of the actual article in an avoidable way.

[MADem]

4. Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Bribed Otto Pérez? Drug Lord Allegedly Paid Former

Guatemalan President $1.5 Million

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That's how you do it!

[Chan790]

5. Well, that's one way of solving the problem. :) n/t

[Judi Lynn]

6. The entire headline does not fit in the allotted space. n/t

[Chan790]

10. That was very much my point...

and that the truncation made using the correct headline less than ideal. Thus, my argument that an exception be made to use a non-identical headline that better reflected the actual content of the article.

Rules are made to be broken when they function counter-productively.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Sorry. It was frustrating seeing how poorly it worked when posting it.

Without a doubt I was over-sensitive, worried it just looked too stupid.

Thanks for your comment, Chan790.

[geek tragedy]

3. He was probably insulted by the lowball offer nt

[gvstn]

7. Maybe there was a typo in the headline?

Joaquín ‘El Cheapo’ Guzmán Bribed Otto Pérez? Drug Lord Allegedly Paid Former Guatemalan President $1.

There I fixed for the Latin Times.

[geek tragedy]

8. the amount was $1.5 million, and I think he was insulted by that sum nt

[gvstn]

9. It was a joke.

I changed El Chapo to El Cheapo.

Probably not too funny. I always heard if you have to explain a joke it isn't that funny.