"El Chapo escapes AGAIN !! Prison Escape Wargame Idea" Topic

What with the New York escape we now have this fantastic event that just took place. What games these would make. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped through a 1.5-kilometer (1 mile) tunnel that opened into the shower area of his cell, Mexico's top security official announced Sunday.
With the elaborate escape hatch built allegedly without the detection of authorities, Guzman has done what Mexican authorities promised would not happen after his re-capture last year — slipped out of a maximum security prison for the second time.
Eighteen employees from various part of the Altiplano prison 90 kilometers (56 miles) west of Mexico City have been taken in for questioning, Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said in a news conference Sunday.

I strongly suspect the "1.5 kilometer long tunnel" idea.
My guess is that someone (probably a seamstress or another guard smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger) tunnelled 5 feet to his private (!) shower cell from the normal utility access tunnels.
He's kind of old to be digging 1500 foot tunnels.

Mexico should have sent him north when the request came through – if the US excels at anything, it's locking people up. Now pride has led to embarrassment.

USA! USA! USA!

When you're good at something…
Send him to Dannemora. That's escape proof.

Iceland sounds pretty good, or perhaps Greenland – Siberia seems to unavailable due to sanctions. Just don't tell anyone where he's been taken seems to be 90% of the solution (for next time).

No detail was spared. There was tubing for ventilation, lighting and a motorcycle on rails that Mr. Rubido said was most likely used to transport tools into the tunnel and haul out dirt. Along its course, the tunnel was equipped with oxygen tanks, fuel canisters and construction materials including wooden beams.

It opened onto a construction site in the neighborhood of Santa Juanita in the municipality of Almoloya de Juárez.

John the OFM, the tunnel could have been dug from the other way. He certainly has the funds to invest in such a venture.

In all honesty, trying him in Bali would have had a much surer outcome in the first place I suspect.

This is why I'm in favor of capital punishment. no escapees.
ymmv,

Knowing Mexican Prisons I wouldn't be surprised if he just walked out the front gate (like he did last time) and this whole tunnel rat thing is just to cover up for the corruption, just like the "hiding in the laundry" stuff was last time. Chapo has a way of persuading people by saying "you either take x number of dollars to help or your family is killed." And "x" is followed by a lot of zeros.

With that kind of money, he should have hired a double to take his place in the cell, which would buy even more time to cover an 'escape'…

When the common poor people of Mexico look to him more than the government you've got a modern bandito hero, remember the drug trade of Mexico flows north and $s south, the problem is not in Mexico its further north and putting him in a jail and trying to 'dead' him wouldn't fix the real problem.
Cheers and Viva Zapata! Always wanted to do the 1890-1900 Me-Hico Revolution (with a bit of a Cheech and Chong vibe would be hilarious, me thinks Pulp Alley rules? :) wonder if plastic Perry ACW converting could be used for that project?

What a joke. Maybe the Chinese have the right idea.

While I like prison escape wargame scenarios, there's not much tabletop meat on this one. You need more conflict and opportunities to be caught, evade, go in and out of detection.

This event would be a good espionage RPG scenario – can you talk to the right people? get the resources? dig the tunnel? avoid detection? who would betray you? how do you handle them? do the authorities "know" something is happening but lack authority to pursue it properly? will they execute that authority anyway? will other prisoners/gangs assist/inhibit/betray/extort?

"Maybe the Chinese have the right idea."

Tiger penis soup?

LOL Jemima ^..^ spot on