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  • ‘El Chapo’ Escapes Prison, Four Mexican Officials Charged In Aiding Drug Lord

    Four more officials were charged after their suspected involvement in the escape of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The number of officials charged in the jailbreak is now seven.

    Two of the charged officials were members of Mexico’s intelligence agency, CISEN, while the other two were prison guards assigned to video monitor the drug lord’s cell.

    The four security workers were believed to have not followed certain “protocols and norms.” Moreover, they failed to report the notorious drug lord’s jailbreak to the higher ranking officials.

    The three other officials charged, were involved with El Chapo’s previous escape.

    El Chapo escaped from maximum-security prison using a tunnel he built in his cell at the Altiplano prison in July, 17 months after his incarceration. The tunnel measures 1.5 kilometers which was excavated under his personal shower in Altiplano prison. It appears that the drug lord used a motorbike on rails to make his getaway.

    According to reports, the exit point was in a farmhouse which was used to hide the excavation under the jail.

    Meanwhile, the son of El Chapo posted to Twitter, a photo of himself with his father following the news of the drug lord’s jailbreak. The said photo shows Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar with a man who looks like the fugitive and another man at a restaurant.

    However, the picture revealed the location of the restaurant because Salazar forgot to disable the location function on his Twitter account.

    But officials doubt if the said photo was taken in Costa Rica, according to reports. They believe the photo may be part of a plot to deceive officials as to El Chapo’s real location.

    The Mexican government has offered a sum of $3.8 million to anyone who can give information as to his whereabouts.

    In 2001, El Chapo also escaped maximum security.

  • Natalia Molchanova, World’s Greatest Freediver, Presumed Dead By Friends And Family

    Natalia Molchanova is presumed dead after never resurfacing following a recreational freedive (without use of a breathing apparatus) off the coast of Spain.

    Natalia Molchanova, who holds 41 world records and 23 world champion titles for freediving and is widely considered the greatest in the world at the sport, was diving with some friends on Sunday when she went under and never came back up.

    A joint statement on Natalia Molchanova from Molchanova’s family and AIDA International, the worldwide federation for breath-hold diving, was released on Tuesday.

    It read, in part, “Natalia Molchanova was recreationally freediving off the coast of Spain on August 2, 2015 when she was separated from her peers. She was diving without fins to around 30 to 40 meters (98 to 132 feet) and (supposedly) got into (a) strong underwater current.”

    The statement went on to say, “Search efforts have been ongoing during daylight hours and the next day since she was reported missing by three peers. She disappeared while diving approximately two miles (3.2 km) northwest of the port of La Savina at Poniente de es Freus.”

    Natalia Molchanova’s son, 28-year-old Alexey Molchanov, who is also a record-holding freediver, said of his extraordinary 54-year-old mother, “It seems she’ll stay in the sea. I think she would like that.”

    It does seem like Natalia Molchanova would prefer her assumed grave to one in the hard ground.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZGAZiUGCPo

    In an interview last year, Natalia Molchanova explained her love for the sea, saying, “Freediving is not only sport, it’s a way to understand who we are.”

    She added, “When we go down, if we don’t think, we understand we are whole. We are one with world. When we think, we are separate. On surface, it is natural to think and we have many information inside. We need to reset sometimes. Freediving helps do that.”

    Hopefully, her family can find peace in the fact that Natalia Molchanova died doing what she loved. We should all be so lucky when our time comes.

    What do you think about Natalia Molchanova’s words on freediving and its ability to help one feel at one with the world?