Argentina's Security Minister Sergio Berni on Friday said that the Southern American country's security forces are on "maximum alert" after they received a tip that fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman could be in their jurisdiction, CNN reported.
Security Minister Berni of Argentina said that the information they received said that El Chapo tried to cross the Chilean-Argentine border. He, however, did not specify which specific part of the long border El Chapo was spotted. The Chilean-Argentine border includes the Andes mountain range and the Patagonian forest.
According to CNN, the information provided by intelligence from abroad suggesting that El Chapo is in Argentina may be linked with cocaine production in South American countries like Colombia and Peru.
Mirror, in its report, also said that locals have spotted cartel boss El Chapo in Pantagonia, El Cordilleran, Argentina at a sweet shop. Authorities are now hunting for two identified cars and a 4x4 vehicle spotted along El Chapo.
In a separate report, Mirror confirmed that El Chapo, while being on the run, was able to lay wreaths during Mexico's Day of the Dead. Three wreaths were found with El Chapo's name in a famous cartel cemetery, the Jardines Del Humaya in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, known to be El Chapo's territory.
The cartel cemetery is just an hour away from the mountainous area of Sierra Madre, where El Chapo escaped the police by jumping off a ravine after being surrounded and approached by the authorities. The drug lord, consequently, had a leg injury after the fall.
Jardines del Humaya is known to be where deceased cartel members are laid. On Mexico's Day of the Dead, El Chapo offered wreaths for his uncle, to someone named Perillo who was shot dead on October 24 and to Manuel Torres, an influential drug trafficker who was killed in a shootout on October 2012.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman broke out of a maximum-security prison in Mexico last July, which is second escape since 2001.
