How El Chapo’s tunnel could bury the rival who jailed him, Mexico’s president

07/15/15 Washington Post

Enrique Pena NietoEnrique Peña Nieto was looking good, as usual.

His thick head of dark hair was smoothed back. His trim figure was packed into an elegant suit and tie. And the handsome face that had won over Mexicans — 38 percent of them at least — 18 months ago now gleamed in the center of the television camera’s frame, just between a tricolor flag and a book simply titled: Mexico.

As Peña Nieto began answering questions on air, however, it quickly became clear that Mexico’s rakish young president didn’t just look good. He felt good, too.

And why not? He had just caught the world’s most wanted criminal.

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