According to reports from U.S. federal prosecutors, senior members of the Mexican Air Force have piloted some of these planes.
Captura de 'El Chapo' no afecta sus actividades; un mito, que el narco ayude a la población, afirman
Guzmán's escape on July 11 from a prison near Mexico City has focused attention again on Badiraguato, the county seat of a township that includes the hamlet of La Tuna, where El Chapo's mother still lives.
A picturesque, agricultural backwater in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains of northwestern Mexico, Badiraguato has been the breeding ground for some of the world's most notorious drug traffickers.