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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Sinaloa Cartel is Sentenced to Life in Prison Plus 30 Years.
On 17 July 2019, a US judge sentenced Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to life in prison plus 30 years.
Guzmán, 62, was found guilty of 10 charges, including drug trafficking and money laundering, by a federal court in New York in February.
He escaped a Mexican jail through a tunnel in 2016, but was later arrested. He was extradited to the US in 2017.
He is a former head of the Sinaloa cartel, which officials say was the biggest supplier of drugs to the US.
During the trial, witnesses said he had tortured his cartel's enemies.
Speaking through an interpreter just before Wednesday's sentencing, Guzmán said in the Brooklyn courtroom his confinement in the US had amounted to "psychological, emotional, mental torture 24 hours a day".
He also said he had received an unfair trial, accusing jurors of misconduct.
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Sinaloa Cartel Marches On
Despite the arrest, extradition and now conviction of narco-lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, his Sinaloa cartel marches on —
The proof is in huge, multi-drug shipments detected on the border and labs seized by Mexican authorities in recent months. The cartel still controls a worldwide web of contacts that can move Colombian cocaine to Cameroon and Mexican meth cooks to Malaysia.
It also controls seaports to get drugs and precursor chemicals shipped in from around the globe; employs labs and chemists to process them; bribes corrupt cops to ensure the drugs can be moved to the border; has engineered multimillion-dollar tunnels to smuggle tons of marijuana and cocaine under the frontier; and pays "mules" to ferry shipments in cars and trucks.
For the people of Badiraguato, the municipality where Guzman was born, nothing much has changed since his extradition to face charges in the United States that marked the end of an era in which he was Mexico's most notorious drug cartel boss and, for some, the stuff of folk legend.
Jaime Laija, a shop owner on the town of Badiraguato, said El Chapo's conviction does not affect them, that business is slow, and that what they need is more jobs.
Sinaloa's Secretary of Public Safety, Cristobal Castañeda Camarillo talking to reporter on Monday said that although crime in his state seemed to be on a downward trend, he did not believe Guzman's conviction would have a noticeable impact.
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