Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, pictured here in 1993, has been deemed by Forbes as the most powerful criminal on the planet.
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Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted to a helicopter at Mexico City's airport on January 8, 2016 following his recapture during an intense military operation in Los Mochis, in Sinaloa State. Mexican marines recaptured fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on Friday in the northwest of the country, six months after his spectacular prison break embarrassed authorities. AFP PHOTO / ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP / ALFREDO ESTRELLA (Photo credit should read ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Story highlights

NEW: Mexican authorities offer a reward and release a new photo of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman

NEW: The interior minister says he's fired the head of the prison where Guzman escaped

Guzman is the boss of one of the world's deadliest drug trafficking operations

CNN  — 

Mexico’s most notorious drug lord now has one more nefarious title: serial prison escapee.

Authorities are scrambling to find Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman after his stunning escape from a maximum-security prison west of Mexico City.

The leader of the Sinaloa cartel stepped into a shower Saturday night, crawled through a hole and vanished through a mile-long tunnel apparently built just for him.

Mexico’s government is offering a reward of up to 60 million pesos ($3.8 million) for information leading to his capture, the country’s attorney general told reporters Monday, releasing what she said was a recent photograph of the cartel kingpin.

The image shows the Sinaloa cartel chief with a shaved head and face – and without the trademark mustache he sported when authorities nabbed him last year.

Mexican authorities released what they said was a recent photograph of escaped drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as they announced a reward for information leading to his capture.