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NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 13, 2015
© 2015 The New York Times
EUROPE PRESSES
GREECE TO AGREE
TO NEW MEASURES
Drug Kingpin
Escapes Prison
Through Tunnel
Breakout of ‘El Chapo’
Embarrasses Mexico
WORKING PAST DEADLINE
A Temporary Euro Exit
and a Debt Fund Are
Considered
By AZAM AHMED
and RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Shortly before 9 p.m. on Saturday, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the
Mexican drug kingpin whose
capture last year had been trumpeted by his country’s government as a crucial victory in its
bloody campaign against the narcotics trade, stepped into the
shower in his cell in the most secure wing of the most secure
prison in Mexico.
He never came out.
When guards later entered the
cell, they discovered a 2-by-2-foot
hole, through which Mr. Guzmán,
known as El Chapo, or Shorty,
had disappeared.
The prison break humiliated
the government of President
Enrique Peña Nieto, which had
proclaimed the arrest of Mr. Guzmán and leaders of other drug
cartels as crucial achievements
in restoring order and sovereignty to a country long beleaguered
by the horrific violence associated with organized crime.
The opening in the shower led
to a mile-long tunnel leading to a
construction site in the nearby
neighborhood of
Santa Juanita in
Almoloya de Juárez, west of Mexico City. The tunnel was more
than two feet
wide and more
than five feet
high, tall enough
for him to walk
Joaquín
standing upright,
Guzmán
and was burLoera
rowed more than
30 feet underground. It had
been equipped with lighting, ventilation and a motorcycle on rails
that was probably used to transport digging material and cart
the dirt out.
A few days after Mr. Guzmán’s
arrest in February of last year,
Mr. Peña Nieto told the Univision
television network that he would
be asking his interior minister
every day if Mr. Guzmán, who
had broken out of a Mexican prison once before, in 2001, was being
well guarded. “It’s the government’s responsibility to ensure
that the escape that occurred a
few years ago is never, ever repeated,” Mr. Peña Nieto said. Continued on Page A3
By ANDREW HIGGINS
and JAMES KANTER
MARCO UGARTE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Federal police searched a drainage pipe Sunday outside the maximum security Altiplano prison in Almoloya de Juárez, Mexico.
Walker, Viewed as ‘Authentic,’ Grieving Biden Focuses on Job
Aims for ‘Smart’ in the ’16 Race He Has Now, Not the Next One
By PETER BAKER
By PATRICK HEALY
After listening to Gov. Scott
Walker of Wisconsin as he has
traveled the country preparing
his campaign for president,
which officially begins on Monday, admiring voters most often
describe him as “authentic,”
“real” and “approachable,” Mr.
Walker’s advisers say.
Two words these voters do not
use about him? “Smart” and “sophisticated.”
“Scott is working on that,” said
Ed Goeas, a veteran Republican
pollster and a senior adviser to
Mr. Walker. “Look, ‘approachable’ is worth its weight in gold in
politics. ‘Smart’ is something voters look for in legislators who
craft policy. But Scott is preparing hard to talk about every issue.”
As Mr. Walker becomes the
15th prominent Republican to enter the 2016 race, the crucial
question he must answer is
whether he can cross the threshold of credibility so that someone
entering a voting booth can imagine him as president, according
to several leading Republicans
and interviews with regular voters.
While Mr. Walker is ahead in
some opinion polls, including for
Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, a series of early gaffes
alarmed party leaders and donors and led Mr. Walker to begin
several months of policy tutorials. The collective hope is that
Mr. Walker can avoid what Mr.
Goeas and other advisers describe as Sarah Palin’s problem
— becoming a candidate who is
initially popular among Republicans, like the 2008 vice-presidential nominee, but loses luster
because of missteps as the campaign goes on.
Mr. Walker is now emerging
from his crash course with the
aim of reassuring activists and
contributors, who have given relatively modest amounts to his political operation so far. The goal is
to no longer sow doubts with
comments like comparing prounion protesters to Islamic State
terrorists, refusing to answer a
question about evolution, or sayContinued on Page A12
WASHINGTON — Hosting a
rockfish and crab lunch for a visiting Vietnamese leader, Vice
President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
seemed subdued as he talked of a
painful history and a promising
future between the United States
and Vietnam. He ad-libbed some
remarks, made a few mild jokes
and stared straight ahead when
his guest spoke.
Six weeks after the death of his
elder son, Mr. Biden has thrown
himself back into his work, meeting with foreign leaders, giving
speeches and even cheering on
the women’s national soccer
team in its victory over Japan in
the World Cup. Unsurprisingly, in
the shadow of tragedy, he is not
his typically ebullient self. But by
all accounts he is feeling his way
forward and trying to figure out
what comes next.
Even without the heartbreak of
loss, this was bound to be a crossroads moment for a vice president who has spent four decades
in Washington only to find an uncertain path ahead. He has not
ruled out running for president
again, and some friends are
MANUEL BALCE CENETA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. last week with Nguyen
Phu Trong of Vietnam.
nudging him to, even if the political math does not seem to favor
it. But he has good days and bad
days, his mind never far from his
late son, Beau Biden, and his staff
is not planning further than two
weeks ahead.
“This is not a guy who is going
to go easily,” said former Senator
Ted Kaufman, a longtime confidant appointed to fill Mr. Biden’s
seat representing Delaware in
the Senate after the 2008 election
elevated him to the vice presidency. “Whatever he’s doing, he’s going to stay involved. He’s not
Continued on Page A11
BRUSSELS
—
Haggling
through the night into Monday
morning over a deal to calm
Greece’s debt crisis, European
leaders demanded that Athens
make new concessions and
quickly adopt a host of economic
policy changes as they worked to
overcome deep divisions and
avert a historic fracture in the
Continent’s common currency.
As testy talks dragged on past
dawn without agreement, leaders
of the 19 countries that use the
euro struggled to draft a compromise that would assuage some of
Greece’s concerns over tough
German-set terms while assuring
creditors that a new bailout
worth tens of billions of euros
would not be money wasted.
The mood grew increasingly
tense as it became clear that the
leaders were weighing steps that
Greece’s left-wing government,
while desperate for a deal to pave
the way for new funding, would
find difficult to sell at home —
just a week after Greek voters
overwhelmingly rejected softer
terms in a referendum.
The new steps under review included a temporary Greek exit
from the eurozone, and placing
proceeds from the privatization
of Greek assets worth up to 50 billion euros, about $55 billion, in a
fund in Luxembourg to help pay
down Greece’s huge debt. Similar
options were first put forward in
a policy paper prepared by the
German Finance Ministry, and
have since stirred anger from
some Greek officials.
Among some supporters of
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
and his left-wing Syriza party, the
demands were portrayed as humiliating and a further effort to
force him from office.
But there were some signs of
progress as another long meeting
in Brussels dragged into Monday
morning, according to two people
with direct knowledge of the talks
who spoke on the condition of anonymity while leaders parried
Continued on Page A8
A Hip-Hop Musical on Hamilton Is Put to the Test on Broadway Growth in the ‘Gig Economy’
Fuels Work Force Anxieties
By MICHAEL PAULSON
The Broadway musical can
seem as oldfangled as the founding fathers. But an audacious hiphop retelling of the life of the nation’s first Treasury secretary
lands on Broadway on Monday
poised to become the rarest of
theatrical phenomena: not only a
hit, but a turning point for the art
form and a cultural conversation
piece.
The show, “Hamilton,” arrives
with a powerful tailwind. It has
already brought in $27.6 million,
with just over 200,000 tickets sold
in advance — huge numbers for
Broadway, and among the biggest pre-opening totals in history.
An Off Broadway production of
the musical, based on Alexander
Hamilton, which ran this year at
the Public Theater, was a critical
darling that sold out 119 performances, attracted a who’s who of
cultural and political figures, and
collected a trophy case of awards.
And the show’s creator, a 35year-old New Yorker named LinManuel Miranda, has already
won a Tony and a Grammy for an
earlier show he had begun while
still an undergraduate.
By NOAM SCHEIBER
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of “Hamilton,” in costume during a rehearsal break.
Thus far “Hamilton” has been
seen by relatively few people — a
total of 34,132 seats were available over 15 weeks at the Public,
fewer than at a typical Yankees
home game, and there remain
uncertainties about how it will be
received by broader audiences
over time.
“The question we have to answer is: ‘Will the word of mouth
be as good, or better, on Broadway? Will we measure up?’” said
the show’s lead producer, Jeffrey
Seller, who has won Tony Awards
for the groundbreaking musicals
“Rent” and “Avenue Q” and Mr.
Miranda’s
debut,
“In
the
Heights.”
The show’s appeal to in-theknow New Yorkers is clear; its
challenge now is to broaden its
appeal to tourists from around
the nation and the globe who
dominate the Broadway audience
and are essential to the longevity
Continued on Page A12
INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL A10-13
Parsing the Papal Tour
Birth Control Policy’s Hurdles
Latin Americans pored over Pope Francis’ trip, dissecting nuances of body language and the subtleties of what he said
and did not say. News analysis. PAGE A4
The Obama administration’s insurance
rule has survived several legal battles,
but a suit by a group of Roman Catholic
PAGE A10
nuns remains a challenge.
BUSINESS B1-8
INTERNATIONAL A3-9
Iran Deal Nears, Diplomats Say
Negotiators from Iran and six world
powers were said to be down to a small
number of remaining disputes before
completing an agreement that would
limit Tehran’s nuclear abilities for more
than a decade in return for relief from
PAGE A9
sanctions.
When the California Labor
Commissioner’s Office ruled last
month that an Uber driver was
an employee deserving of a variety of workplace protections —
and was not, as the company
maintained, an independent contractor — it highlighted the divided feelings many Americans
have about what is increasingly
being called the “gig economy.”
On one hand, start-ups like
Uber, which is appealing the decision, and Lyft make it possible to
conjure up rides on a smartphone
in a few seconds’ time.
On the other, Uber — which directly employs fewer than 4,000
of the more than 160,000 people in
the United States who depend on
it for at least part of their livelihood — and similar companies
pose a challenge to longstanding
notions of what it means to hold a
job.
As it happens, though, Uber is
not so much a labor-market innovation as the culmination of a
generation-long trend. Even be-
fore the founding of the company
in 2009, the United States economy was rapidly becoming an
Uber economy writ large, with
tens of millions of Americans involved in some form of freelancing, contracting, temping or outsourcing.
The decades-long shift to these
A SHIFTING MIDDLE
Contracting for a Living
more flexible workplace arrangements, the venture capitalist
Nick Hanauer and the labor leader David Rolf argue in the latest
issue of Democracy Journal, is a
“transformation that promises
new efficiencies and greater flexibility for ‘employers’ and ‘employees’ alike, but which threatens to undermine the very foundation upon which middle-class
America was built.”
Along with other changes, like
Continued on Page B8
OBITUARIES A16-17
Behind China’s Volatile Market
NEW YORK A14-16, 20
Jon Vickers, Powerful Tenor
SPORTSMONDAY D1-6
The dynamics of China’s stock market,
as well as manipulation by the government, have fanned the tumult. PAGE B1
Dispatches From World War II
The singer brought intensity and a colossal voice to portrayals of Wagner’s
Tristan, Verdi’s Otello and Britten’s PePAGE A16
ter Grimes. He was 88.
Djokovic Wins Wimbledon
Comcast’s Web Alternative
In a bid to stay relevant to a new generation of viewers, the cable company has
plans for a streaming service. PAGE B1
A private’s near-daily letters to his wife
are being digitally archived.
PAGE A14
A New State Paleontologist
Lisa Amati focuses on prehistoric New
PAGE A14
Yorkers. The Working Life.
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A18-19
Charles M. Blow
PAGE A19
Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer to
win his third Wimbledon title. PAGE D1
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