Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo recaptured in Mexico after gun battle

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the world's
most sought-after drug lords, has been captured
in his Sinaloa hometown.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced
Friday.
"Mission accomplished!" the president said via his
Twitter account.
He was captured again today at 4:30am in a
firefight between his bodyguards and Mexican
Marine special forces in the Sinaloa city of Los
Mochis, on the Pacific coast and not far from his
home, government officials said. Five of his
associates were killed, six injured and several
captured, the navy said. One marine was
wounded.
The special forces were responding to a citizen’s
tip regarding armed people in a home when they
came under fire, the navy said.
Guzman a multi-billionaire thanks to his
Sinaloa Cartel, which traffics in cocaine and
marijuana escaped from jail in July for the
second time, dramatically tunneling his way out
of Mexico's top maximum-security prison.
Guzman’s escape last year was a major
embarrassment for the Peña Nieto government,
exposing deep levels of corruption and an inability
to mete out justice.
The U.S. government lamented Mexico’s refusal
to extradite Guzman to the U.S., where he has
been indicted in California and elsewhere because
of his cartel’s expanding operations. It is likely
that Washington will now revive extradition
requests.