1. "El Chapo" Guzman is on the run for the SECOND time. How embarrassing or frustrating is it for both enforcement officers in Mexico and U.S.?

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1 DATE: July 13 TIME: 1545 EST FORMAT: LTS- Skype anthony.john.coulson EX: Tucson, Arizona GUEST: Anthony Coulson (Cool-son) SUPER: Former U.S. Drug Enforcement Agent CONTACT: (520) HOST: Diana Swain PRODUCER: Sarah George PAYMENT REQUIRED: NO STORY EDITOR: Mandy Luk FOCUS: Anthony Coulson, former head of the DEA in Tucson, says Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's second escape from a high-security prison in Mexico is a game changer, because it furthers the culture of corruption in Mexico and erases any trust the U.S. had in Mexico's abilities to handle drug lords. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GUEST: - Mr. Coulson retired from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in When he retired he was the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the DEA s Tucson District Office. - thinks before he speaks. Sometimes, he sounds like he is hesitating but more he is gathering his thoughts - Owns a firm that consults on drug trafficking matters and immigration issues. - Has done interviews on USA Today and NBC regarding Guzman's escape. RELATED BACKGROUND: - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a Mexican drug trafficker, escaped from prison in Mexico this Saturday. -This is seen as the Mexican president's biggest failure in the war on drug cartels. -This is Guzman's second escape from a high-security prison in Mexico. -The escape route was apparently built over the last year right under authorities' noses. -The U.S. wanted to extradite Guzman and put him in an American prison, but Mexico said "no" and that they could handle him. -The U.S. and Mexico had teamed up to put and end to the corruption and drug wars in Mexico; they have pooled over one hundred billion dollars into this partnership. -His escape will throw gasoline on the drug war fire; the war had been calming down after the removal of major cartel heads over the past few

2 years. TALKING POINTS: -He will talk about the lack of trust between the U.S. and Mexico and how this escape is just more proof that the Mexican government can't control its high profile criminals. -He will talk about how the citizens of Mexico may turn to vigilante groups, because they may not see a judicial system that they can rely on. -He will say it will take several generations and a very strong leader to fix the "culture of corruption" in Mexico. PRE-INTERVIEW: -It changes the game plan between the U.S. and Mexico -There is no trust there -This furthers the culture of corruption in Mexico -U.S. should have pushed harder to extradite -The U.S. will have to be more proactive in the future and will have to push extraditions -If he isn't caught, vigilante groups could form -The citizens see no system to rely on -He thinks there is a potential to create mass anarchy for the citizens in Mexico. It is another blow to their judiciary system -It would take several generations and a really strong leader to weed the corruption out of Mexico QUICK THOUGHTS ON QUESTIONS: 1. "El Chapo" Guzman is on the run for the SECOND time. How embarrassing or frustrating is it for both enforcement officers in Mexico and U.S.? 2. How will this change the dynamics of the cartel war in Mexico? 3. What can U.S. offer to help recapture Guzman? 4. What is the chance that he will be put behind bars again? RELATED BACKGROUND: Drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's escape erases Mexico's triumphant capture World's richest drug trafficker slipped down shaft from prison shower area and walked out a tunnel The Associated Press Posted: Jul 13, :06 AM ET Last Updated: Jul

3 13, :52 AM ET The bold escape by Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman from a maximum security prison is being seen as all the more devastating for President Enrique Pena Nieto's government in its war against drug cartels given the sense of triumph when he was captured. A widespread manhunt that included highway checkpoints, stepped up border security and closure of an international airport failed to turn up any trace of Guzman by late Sunday, more than 24 hours after he got away. Widely considered the world's richest and most powerful drug trafficker before his capture last year, Guzman slipped down a shaft from his prison cell's shower area late Saturday and disappeared into a sophisticated, 1.5 kilometre-long tunnel with ventilation, lighting and a motorcycle apparently used to move dirt. "All the accolades that Mexico has received in their counter-drug efforts will be erased by this one event" if Guzman is not recaptured, said Michael S. Vigil, a retired U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief of international operations. More than anything else, the escape undermined Mexico's assertion it can deal with top drug lords at home and doesn't need to extradite them to the U.S. The national pride that appeared to motivate Pena Nieto's administration to prosecute drug lords like Guzman through its own court system has now turned into a national embarrassment. According to a report from the Congressional Research Service in May, extraditions from Mexico to the U.S. peaked at 115 in 2012, the last year of Pena Nieto's predecessor, Felipe Calderon. There were 66 last year. The escape route apparently was built over the last year right under authorities' noses into a supposedly escape-proof lockup. Its scale has raised suspicions of corruption that could most discourage the U.S., Mexico's main ally that has poured more than $1 billion into joint efforts at battling organized crime cartels, much of it focused on reforming the criminal justice system. Conflict with U.S. The United States was already stinging from a court decision in August 2013 to free drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero on procedural grounds,

4 overturning his conviction in the 1985 kidnapping, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. Caro Quintero hasn't been seen in public since then. "For the most-wanted criminal to escape from the highest-security prison is going to create conflicts, the first of them with the United States," Mexican security expert Jorge Chabat said Sunday. The escape also hurt Pena Nieto domestically. He had campaigned on one main promise - to diminish drug cartel violence - and had claimed success in attacking drug gang capos like no administration before it, arresting or killing essentially all the top leadership of the Zetas, Beltran Leyva and Knights Templar cartels. It was a highlight for an administration struggling on other fronts, including a lackluster economy and scandals over the disappearance of 43 college students, and the purchase by the president's wife of a mansion, known as the "white house," from a government contractor. "This hurts him a lot. It is an administration that already has a lot of image problems, with the scandals over the students and the `white house,' and now this comes along and paints them as an administration with serious problems of inefficiency and corruption," Chabat said. 'Unforgivable' Just as painful are memories of the cocksure way officials reacted after they captured Guzman in February 2014, some 13 years after the Sinaloa Cartel boss managed to flee from Mexico's only other maximum-security prison. Pena Nieto said in a televised interview that allowing him to escape again would be "unforgivable." Jesus Murillo Karam, his attorney general at the time, said the possibility of another Guzman escape "does not exist." Manuel Ballbe, professor and director of School of Risk Prevention at Spain's Autonomous University of Barcelona, said it was important for the U.S. to pressure for extraditions. "International pressure is the check and balance against the state's corrupt powers," Ballbe said. The bold and well-engineered escape also illustrates that simply capturing

5 such a powerful figure without dismantling his financial network is insufficient, he said. "Holding a drug lord inside the country does not affect his financial capacity," Ballbe said. "It is very difficult for the state to do something against the size of the bribes that these networks can produce." Tremendous criticism U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said in a statement that "we share the government of Mexico's concern regarding the escape of Joaquin Guzman," adding that "the U.S. government stands ready to work with our Mexican partners to provide any assistance that may help support his swift recapture." But Peter Bensinger, a former administrator of the DEA, said he expects that U.S. officials have expressed their anger to their Mexican counterparts. "He ought to have been housed in an American prison," Bensinger said. "Mexican authorities will come in for tremendous criticism, as they should." Raul Benitez, a security expert at Mexico's National Autonomous University, said Guzman's second escape is even worse for Pena Nieto than if he had never captured him. "In the context of the drug war it is the president's worst failure," Benitez said.s in the House of Commons.