New footage released ten years after the arrest of El Chapo

On August 17, 2026, two Mexican news outlets, El Universal and Aristegui Noticias, released four previously unseen videos documenting the January 2016 arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera. The footage offers new insight into the high-profile capture of the Sinaloa cartel leader, occurring exactly a decade after the landmark event in the battle against Mexican organized crime.

The apprehension of Guzmán Loera was part of a coordinated mission dubbed "Operation Black Swan" (Operación Cisne Negro), which launched at 4:00 AM on January 8, 2016, in the Las Palmas district of Sinaloa. During the operation, Guzmán and his head of security, Orso Iván Gastélum, known as "El Cholo Iván," attempted to evade capture by fleeing through a sewer system before eventually being detained by federal authorities. The events surrounding this operation were previously chronicled by journalist Héctor de Mauleón and served as the basis for the film "La Captura.

Following his 2016 arrest, Guzmán was later extradited to the United States. In 2019, he was convicted on charges including drug trafficking and money laundering. He is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison in Colorado.