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Mexico: 'Mistaken identity' over Guzman drug arrest
Source: BBC
Mexico's government has admitted that it mistakenly identified a detained man as the son of the country's most-wanted drugs lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
On Thursday officials paraded before the media a man they said was Jesus Alfredo Guzman, whose father leads the powerful Sinaloa cartel.
But the arrested man was in fact Felix Beltran Leon, a car salesman, the attorney general's office said.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18561819
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1.How could they mistake a car salesman for the son of a drug lord?
2.What took them so long to identify the man they arrested?
