MEXICO CITY - The leader of the Mexican military told U.S. authorities last year that the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel moves among 10 to 15 known locations, but that capturing Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was "difficult" because the most wanted man in Mexico surrounds himself with hundreds of armed men and a sophisticated web of snitches, according to a leaked diplomatic cable.
Mexico's defense secretary, Gen. Guillermo Galvan, told Adm. Dennis Blair, then the Obama administration's director of national intelligence, that the Mexican army was implementing plans to capture Guzman, "but that Chapo commands the support of a large network of informers and has security circles of up to 300 men that make launching capture operations difficult," according to a report sent by U. …
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