El Chapo Guzmán was sentenced to life imprisonment in …

The Mexican drug dealer Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera was sentenced to life imprisonment, as well as an additional 30 years, by a federal judge in New York. The decision marks the end of the long court process, which began with his arrest in Mexico in 2016 and his subsequent extradition to the United States. El Chapo, 62, had already been convicted in February by a jury of the 10 counts of which he was accused, including involvement in a persistent criminal enterprise and drug smuggling.

Brian Cogan, the Brooklyn federal judge who presided over his trial, recalled his "crushing cruelty" at a hearing of less than an hour and stated that he had been sentenced to a term of imprisonment. 30-year life sentence at the request of the US government.

The drug lord, dressed in a gray suit and wearing a thick mustache for the first time in court, listened carefully to the sentence and complained of the magistrate's refusal to make a new trial.

The defense requested a new trial because an anonymous jury had informed Vice News that she had had access to social networks and media during the process, as well as to several other juries, which is forbidden and may have influenced the verdict.

"Since the United States government will send me to a prison where they will never see my name again, I take the opportunity to tell them: there was no justice here," he said. said Chapo to Judge Cogan in Spanish.

It was the first time that he had spoken in public since his extradition to the United States in January 2017, and he did not apologize for his crimes.

"The United States is no better than any other corrupt country that you do not respect," he said.

El Chapo also complained to the judge of his conditions of detention at Manhattan Prison, where he is being held in nearly total solitary confinement for 30 months.

He regretted the lack of natural light, fresh air, the sound of ventilation ducts that did not allow him to hug his little twin girls – who did not attend the trouble – and remembered that his wife Emma Coronel, a beauty exreina At 30, he was never able to visit him or touch him.

"It was a 24-hour torture, emotional, psychological, mental," he said. "It's the most inhuman thing I've ever experienced."

When he entered and left the room, Chapo sent kisses to the colonel and touched his heart. She dressed in a black and white suit did the same.

El Chapo was charged with trafficking or attempting to smuggle 1,213 tons of drugs into the United States. for a quarter of a century, as well as 1.44 tons of cocaine base, 222 kg of heroin, nearly 50 tons of marijuana and "quantities" of methamphetamines.

During the trial, the prosecution presented evidence that Chapo had ordered the death or torture and killed at least 26 people or groups of people, including alleged informants, rival narcotics, police , collaborators and even parents.

After a strange trial that lasted three months on February 12, a jury found him guilty of drug trafficking, money laundering and firearms possession.

The US government has taken the trouble of considering the largest drug trafficker on the planet since the death of Colombian Pablo Escobar.

"We will ensure that he spends every minute of his time in jail here in the United States," said Brooklyn's federal attorney, Richard Donoghue, to the press.

"Today, justice is done for the American people and for Mexico, whose institutions have been corrupted for decades by Guzman and the Sinaloa cartel," said Brian Benczkowski, Deputy Attorney General at the Criminal Division of the Ministry of Justice. Justice.

During the sentence, Andrea Fernández Velez, a Colombian whom El Chapo tried to kill and who cooperated with the government and now has a new secret identity in the United States, told her story.

Velez, a former Colombian drug trafficker and partner of Chapo Alex Cifuentes, had a modeling agency in Mexico, a shell company that offered prostitutes to Mexican officials, all paid for by Chapo.

Chapo "offered a million dollars to the Hells Angels (a gang of bikers) to end my life," he said, crying and looking at the capo, but he did not want to go back. eyes only for the colonel.

"It caused me psychological damage, but luckily I found out and escaped with the help of the FBI," Velez said.

At the trial, Cifuentes said that at the request of Chapo, Velez had offered $ 10 million to an unidentified Mexican general for him to stop pursuing the capo. But the soldier rejected the offer and Chapo, furious, decided to kill her while she was in Canada.

The lawsuit was a fascinating journey into one of the most important and unforgiving drug cartels.

The prosecution presented convincing evidence of the accused's guilt and summoned 56 witnesses, including 14 ex-partners, friends and even a chapo lover who ran naked while running in a tunnel.

After the death of Pablo Escobar, in 1993, the most wanted cappo lawyers immediately announced that they would appeal this conviction. "Justice has not been done and he is frustrated by this situation," his lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, told the Brooklyn court.

The US government is seeking to requisition more than $ 12,600 million, which would have been ambaded. But until now, he has not been able to grab Chapo a dime.

El Chapo, the protagonist of two spectacular Mexican prison escapees, is expected to serve her sentence at the Colorado ADX Florence prison, known as "Rocky Mountain Alcatraz" and considered the safest in the United States.