Surveillance video from inside Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's cell has been released showing the exact moment of escape. Months before El Chapo was extradited to the United States in January 2017, the drug lord already had a plan in place to escape from the same Mexican prison once fled in two years earlier.

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Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been recaptured seven months after he escaped from prison, Mexican authorities announced Friday.

But this isn’t the first time El Chapo, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, has been on the lam. The drug kingpin has a long history of capture, escape and recapture.

Here are some major dates in Guzman’s timeline (with some information from the Associated Press):

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• June 10, 1993: Mexico announces Guzman’s first capture in Guatemala. But even after Guzman was imprisoned, “He continued to manage his affairs from prison with scarcely a hitch,” writes Robert Saviano in his book ZeroZeroZero. “The maximum security prison Puente Grande, where he was transferred in 1995, became his new base of operations,”

• Jan. 19, 2001: With the help of bribed guards, Guzman escapes from his top-security prison. Saviano describes the escape: “One of them—Francisco Camberos Rivera, known as El Chito, or the Silent One—opened the door to El Chapo’s cell and helped him climb into a cart of dirty laundry. They headed down unguarded hallways and through wide-open electronic doors to the inner parking lot, where only one guard was on duty. El Chapo jumped out of the cart and leaped into the trunk of a Chevrolet Monte Carlo.”

• Feb. 22, 2014: El Chapo is captured in Mazatlan after hiding in tunnels for days. The success was touted as a huge win for authorities, who by then had deemed Guzman the “most powerful drug trafficker in the world.”

• July 11, 2015: Guzman escapes through a tunnel from Mexico’s top-security prison. You can see the path he took to escape here.

• Jan. 8, 2016: He is once again re-captured in Los Mochis, Sinaloa after a shootout with Mexican marines. Five people were killed and one marine was wounded in the fight.

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Little more than a year after photographing Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman when the Mexican drug lord was recaptured, another emergency call came early on Sunday 12 July. “El Chapo”, or 'Shorty', had escaped again, this time through a tunnel, from the high-security prison knows as El Altiplano.

It was only late in the afternoon on Tuesday, more than two full days after that early call, when the authorities let us in to see the tunnel site. What started out as 100 journalists had now been reduced by the wait to 12. I was the second one in.