Chapo Guzmán drugged and raped minors, says witness

NEW YORK.- A witness in the trial of the

Chapo Guzmán

He told the US government that the legendary Mexican drug lord was drugging and raping girls, which he considered his "vitamins" to stay young, according to documents released yesterday.

Alex Cifuentes, one of the former secretaries of Chapo and his cocaine supplier for years,
He told the US government that a woman had sent photos of only 13-year-old girls to the legendary Mexican capo, and that she had then chosen those with whom she wanted to have bad, paying 5,000 dollars each.

Cifuentes himself used this service three or four times to have bad with teenagers sometimes as young as 15, the government said in documents filed with the court, "and he saw the accused do the same thing over and over with girls who sometimes, they were only 13 years old ".

Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán, 61, former head of the Sinaloa cartel, sometimes drugged them with "powdered substance" before raping them, with the help of Cifuentes, said the witness, a follower of the Witchcraft who believes in UFOs and were convinced that the apocalypse would come in 2012, according to the prosecution documents.

However, Cifuentes, who lived in 2007 and 2008 with Chapo in the Sinaloa Mountains, made no mention during his four days of testimony at the Chapo trial, which culminated Thursday after three months of hearings.

Juries, which are not allowed to read anything related to the trial in the press or social media, will not be able to take this information into account as of Monday, when they will start discussing the whether or not the drug lord is guilty of trafficking hundreds of tons of drugs. a

United States

.

"Joaquin denies the charges, which have not been corroborated and have been deemed too harmful and unreliable to be admitted to trial," Chapo's lawyer Eduardo Balarezo said in a statement sent by email.

"It is unfortunate that the documents were made public just before the deliberations of the jury," he added.

If Chapo is convicted, he could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

The publication of these documents, previously kept secret, is due to a legal complaint from the American media, which throughout the trial fought against the secrecy surrounding the case.

Another document released yesterday indicates that Chapo raped a witness at trial, before starting a romantic relationship with her. The only woman among the 14 witnesses badociated was Lucero Sánchez, a chapo lover and former capo badociate, who is now 29 years old.

Alex Cifuentes, a

narco

Trafficker aged 10, aged 50, he was arrested at

Mexico

in 2013 and then expelled from Colombia to the United States. Prisoner in this country, collaborates with the government in exchange for a possible reduction of his sentence.

AFP Agency