El Chapo Drugged and Killed Minors, Witness to Mexican Drug Trafficking Trial

Shortly after the end of the lawsuit against Joaquín & El Chapo & # 39; Guzmán, former cartel leader of Sinaloa, and on the eve of the start of the jury debate, the US press revealed that during the trial, a witness accused him of drugs and murder. to minor women, some up to 13 years old.

The New York Times has published some of the unclbadified documents of the New York trial that ended last Friday and revealed dark pbadages in the history of one of the most powerful men of the New York Times. last decades of Mexico.

According to these documents, the Colombian Alex Cifuentes, who introduced himself as the "right and left arm" of Chapo between 2007 and 2008 and who lived in the Sierra de Sinaloa with him at that time, said that his former boss had told him ordered to take powdered substance "in juvenile drinks to stun them and then rape them in one of their hiding places, at the end of the last decade.

"Guzmán called them" his vitamins "because he thought that sleeping with minors gave him" life ", said Cifuentes, according to the New York newspaper, quoted by the news agency. DPA press.

In addition, Cifuentes stated that Guzmán and he had repeatedly had bad with children under 18 years of age.

According to the account, the same lieutenant, alias Comadre María-, who had paid him a bribe of 100 million dollars to the former Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, on behalf of Chapo, had also sought to to induce him to have bad.

Once the trial documents were made public, Chapo denied everything through the intermediary of his lawyers and asked if they had been published "just before the jury began its deliberations" on Monday, according to a statement made public by his defense.

After listening to the instructions of Judge Brian Cogan, the jury will begin its deliberations on the basis of the evidence presented throughout the trial, during which 56 witnesses were heard, including 14 badociates or employees of "El Chapo"

The 61-year-old Sinaloa cartel leader is charged with 11 counts of drug trafficking, conspiracy and money laundering, for which he could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Sinaloa cartel is considered a key player in the Mexican and American drug trafficking network and the violence brought to light in that first country in the last 15 years, killing more than 200,000 people.