argentinean officials say they are on high alert after getting a tip that escaped Mexican drug boss Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman may be somewhere along the country's mountainous southern border with Chile.
Guzman, the world's most wanted drug trafficker, escaped in July from a Mexican maximum-security prison through a 1.5km-long tunnel that surfaced right inside his cell, in a major embarrassment for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
There is a massive manhunt on in Mexico for El Chapo, also known as 'Shorty', head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel which has smuggled billions of dollars worth of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines into the United States and fought vicious turf wars with other Mexican gangs.
'We received information that El Chapo tried to cross the Chilean/Argentine border,' in the southern region of Patagonia, Argentine Security Secretary Sergio Berni said.
Reuters