'El Chapo' Escape: Why Marine Corps Who Arrested Drug Lord Don't Want To Make Details Public

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán’s escape and recapture has gathered media attention all over the world, especially after Rolling Stone magazine published an article revealing the infamous drug lord’s secret meeting with actors Sean Penn and Kate Del Castillo in Mexico while he was still a fugitive. The case has become a worldwide phenomenon, to say the least.

For this reason, the INAI (Instituto Nacional de Transparencia) has issued an order for the Semar (Secretaría de Marina), the Marine Corps responsible for "El Chapo’s" arrest, to disclose all details about the operation, which has been previously referred to as "Operación Cisne Negro."

Francisco Javier Acuña, commissioner in charge at the institute, explained that because of its "notoriety and National relevance," the case should be exposed to the public, and reservations should not be considered at this point.

"Because of the way that the evidence has been portrayed in the media and other information mechanisms, where he was captured, what time, under what circumstances," Acuña told Proceso. "It doesn’t make sense, from the public’s interest perspective, to keep that information locked or protected."

Acuña added that access to that evidence has been denied to them two times before, and as an organization that foments transparency; they should have the right to quote and provide such data to other public dependencies.

On January 11, 2016, Televisa released footage of the "Black Swan" operation, which showed explicit images of the Mexican Marine Corps arriving to the king ping’s hideout in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, and engaging in a gunfight against the sicarios hiding in the house.

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto proudly announced the arrest on social media on January 8, stating: "Mission accomplished: We have him. I want to inform Mexicans that Joaquín Guzmán Loera has been detained." However, explicit details about the arrest were never made public.

Many questions have been asked from the moment "El Chapo" escaped prison, to the moment he was recaptured: "How did he escape in the first place?" "Did he have people working with him at the maximum-security prison?" "How many?" "Did the Government know?" "Was the Government involved?" "Did Kate Del Castillo lead the way?"

Answers to all of these questions have not necessarily been answered. In October 2015, Mexico’s Attorney General Arely Gómez released a statement assuring Mexico’s citizens and the world that 33 people believed to be linked to the escape had been arrested. There have been no further reports on the suspects.

Kate Del Castillo’s recent allegations about the Mexican government have also sparked some doubts, not among Mexicans, a Nation fully aware of their country’s corrupted system, but among those who read the report about her encounter with the Sinaloa Cartel leader on The New Yorker, or watched her 20/20 interview with Barbara Walters.

"I don’t have to give the media any explanations," Del Castillo told Univision. "If I’m not saying anything is because my lawyers advised me not to do so because the government wants to the destroy me, no matter what."

According to recent reports, the 43-year-old telenovela star, who currently under investigation, has decided to skip two of her court dates in Aztec grounds, and is now demanding full access to all the files the government has on her case as of now.

Another question rises, why are all the people involved in this scandal trying to withhold information? What really went down in Mexico before, during, and after "El Chapo's" arrest? The truth remains to be told.