# @cnnvalencia on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C14cCoaLnx8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10620038-cnnvalencia-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-01-09T13:51:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nick Valencia (@cnnvalencia) — https://gondola.cc/cnnvalencia

## Caption

8 years ago today, I was there to watch Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán paraded in handcuffs after he had been captured by Mexican authorities.
It was a full circle moment. Just a year earlier, I was the first American in his prison escape tunnel. For those who know, in my 20s I cut my teeth covering the Mexican drug cartels. When I was first getting started as a reporter, I was in a drug cartel bar in Tijuana and survived and then that kinda led to my on-air career now on CNN. Sometimes I feel like my career is intertwined with El Chapo’s. It’s moments like this that make me so grateful to be a journalist and have a front row seat to history. No one can ever take these special moments away from us. 
#elchapo #narco #mexico #history #journalist

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narco, history, mexico, elchapo, journalist

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