Inside the secret Mexican hideout used by El Chapo’s partner

Jurors seated on Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s trial got a first-ever glimpse into the hideout of the kingpin’s fugitive partner, as a DEA agent described a failed arrest attempt in 2014.

The footage, shown Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court, was taken after the sun had set in the outskirts of Culican, Mexico, and records the descent of agent and lead US liaison Victor Vasquez and his Mexican marine counterparts into a ranch where they believed Guzman’s partner, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, to be hiding.

Zambada was gone, and instead the handheld video shows a sterile, impersonally decorated ranch-style home, with beige sofas and fluffed pillows.

Vasquez says all they found was the caretaker, whom he did not name and who can be seen at the tail end of the footage, seated in a plastic chair being questioned by marines.

The agent said the raid took place after he and the Mexican marines set up shop in Baja in February 2014, with plans to arrest Guzman or Zambada, depending on who “jumped” first.

Another video taken from a fleet of four Black Hawk helicopters shows the Mexican marines approaching the ranch on Feb. 13, 2014, in a chopper stuffed with 45 marines.

Vasquez is expected to testify Thursday that three days after their failed attempt to nab Zambada, they went after Guzman.

That bust involved a naked Guzman in a home in Culican, fleeing through a tunnel hidden under a bathtub and into the sewers. He was apprehended six days later.

Vasquez described being in Culican as “going into the lion’s den. You’re going into the area of control of the most powerful cartel in the world. We can’t be there sitting, not possible.”

But Guzman would later escape custody yet again, this time through a shaft his cronies dug under his prison cell.

The slippery drug lord was apprehended the final time in 2016, prior to his extradition to the US to face trial.