US Attorney's Office asks Judge Chapo to leave the plot

The federal prosecutor's office In the case of drug trafficking against Joaquín "el Chapo" Guzmán, who is in New York, he asked the judge which prevents the defense from emphasizing in its final arguments that US governments and the Mexican conspired to selectively pursue the alleged leader of the Sinaloa cartel.

After the presentation 56 witnessesThirteen of them cooperating with the United States government, the prosecutor's office filed a motion with the case judge, Brian Cogan, also asking him to avoid Defense Arguments Regarding an Alleged Conspiracy Between the United States and Mexico to cover corruption in the latter country.

During the trial, they went to Presumed bribes shine at all levels of the Mexican government by the cartel of Sinaloa, who allegedly led the accused with his partner Ismael "May Zambada" to exploit his drug trafficking business, in which they involved the Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

From the first day of the trial, November 14 badured defense that the Mexican president of the time Enrique Peña Nieto and his predecessor, Felipe Calderón, were bought by Zambada.

The Prosecutor also emphasizes the motion that the defense argued in this process, and without evidence, that Zambada has corrupted the Mexican government to achieve its objectives (which it has been treated) to Guzmán Loera.

"In addition, if there is such evidence that does not exist, this argument is totally irrelevant in the guilt of the accused", said the Office of the Prosecutor.

He also explained to the judge that the defense had made efforts, during the cross-examination of the witnesses, to obtain statements on bribes paid to government officials in Mexico by or on behalf of Mayo Zambada.

Guzmán Loera, extradited to New York two years ago, is the subject of drug trafficking charges, the main purpose of which is to permanently maintain a criminal enterprise, and to be found guilty of life imprisonment.

The Office of the Prosecutor reduced charges from 17 to at the end of the trial, he eliminated one of the charges drug trafficking, for which it will be evaluated by the jury.

The jury, of which age varies between 20 and 50 years and among those who have immigrants from Poland, Ethiopia, and Asia, could begin deliberate next friday, after 36 days of trial.

The Chapo defense only introduced one witness who was questioned today by Jeffrey Lichtman, one of his lawyersin an interrogation that lasted only half an hour.

FBI agent John Roberts was questioned over alleged inconsistencies In a report that he wrote in 2017 during an interrogation, Colombian witness Jorge Cifuentes, a US government witness who cooperated, provided drugs in Sinaloa cartel.

During this interview Cifuentes alleged that a corrupt agent of the Colombian Navy facilitated access to a USB key containing information from a survey that the government of his family of drug traffickers, as well as del Chapo.

In his report, Roberts incorrectly stated that the USB has been shown by a member of the US Navy.

Chapo's defense tried throughout the process To undermine the credibility of witnesses before the jury. The prosecutor's office will present its final conclusions tomorrow and defense Thursday