MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Peña-Nieto announced today that the government has awarded a public work contract to El Chapo, Inc. to build as many tunnels as needed along the United States and Mexico border to facilitate future “commerce and trade” between the two countries in the unlikely event of a Trump US Presidency.

The much anticipated deal is the first time that the Mexican government has publicly announced its intention and plans in response to the U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign promise to build a sometimes 20 feet tall, other times 30 feet tall wall along the U.S. and Mexican border. Indeed, Mr. Trump’s wall is promised to be higher and higher as it gets closer and closer to the Republican convention. Mr. Trump has said that his wall would cost approximately $10 billion and that the Mexican government will pay for it.

Trump expressing his endearment for Mexico at a rally in Tuscon.

Mexican former presidents Felipe Calderón and Vicente Fox have used colorful language in expressing their opposition. Nevertheless, President Peña-Nieto has to be a bit more diplomatic. Despite his statement in the press last month that there was “no scenario” under which Mexico will pay for the wall and drawing analogies between Trump and Hitler and Mussolini, President Pena-Nieto is forced to rethink his position. Hence, the public works contract with El Chapo.

El Chapo, Inc., a privately held company specializing in logistics and tunnels construction, recently won notoriety in the Mexican press for its success in building a tunnel under very challenging circumstances and environment. In July 2015, it completed a mile long tunnel, fitted with a lighting and ventilation system for notorious Sinaloa drugs cartel kingpin, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, to escape from Altiplano Prison, near Mexico City. The tunnel was thirty feet below the ground and ran from a hole under the shower in Guzmán’s cell to a hole in a construction site 0.7 mile away from the prison. In recently released videotapes of El Chapo Guzmán’s cell during the days and weeks before his escape, loud hammering and construction noises were clearly audible. Yet, prison guards were apparently oblivious while tuning into the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Mexico City on their security system monitors.

The actual moment El Chapo got away!

Despite appearances and rumors, El Chapo, Inc. and “El Chapo” Guzmán denied any association other than the one time deal they made at Altiplano Prison. However, “El Chapo” Guzmán had high praises for the company and intimated that he was considering engaging its services for another “very discreet” project in the near future, depending on news of whether he might be extradited to the US to face murder, kidnapping and drugs charges.