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A drain exit which leads to a tunnel underneath the house.

A Reuters journalist stands outside a steel door leading from the city’s drainage system into a tunnel underneath the house.

A steel ladder leads to the bottom of a removable bathtub at the house.

The bottom of a removable bathtub.

Tunnel from the house leading to the city’s drainage system

An open steel door leads from a tunnel underneath.

Part of the city’s drainage system.

A Mexican marine lifts a bathtub that leads to a tunnel and exits in the city’s drainage system at one of the houses of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman in Culiacan.

Bedroom in one of the houses of Mexican kingpin Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman.

In villages nestled amid the jagged mountains where captured Mexican kingpin Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman was born,
the drug trade that dominates the local economy is already breeding the next generation of smugglers and gunslingers.
Guzman, arrested last weekend, started life in the village of La Tuna high in the sierra of Mexico’s northwestern state of Sinaloa.
Marijuana and the poppies used for opium have been grown here for decades, fueling the rise of successive dynasties of famous drug lords.
Reuters photographer Daniel Becerril took a look inside some of the tunnels of drug kingpin Chapo,
who was captured on Saturday in a raid just days after escaping from the clutches of Mexican troops through the tunnel and sewers.