Revelations, lovers and methods of torture: the shocking statements of the lawsuit against "El Chapo"

After three months of trial, the prosecutor's office and defense presented their final arguments in the process of drug trafficking against "El Chapo" Guzmán. Starting Monday, a jury is expected to issue a verdict and sentence his boss to life imprisonment for sending over 155 tons of drugs to the United States for 25 years. $ 14,000 million.

According to the prosecutor Adam Fels, Guzmán sent enough "give more than one line of cocaine to every inhabitant of the United States. "

The trial of the Mexican drug dealer takes place in a court in Brooklyn, New York. For 34 days, companions, friends, allies, lovers, partners and detractors of Guzmán Loera marched. Almost all were protected witnesses of the United States government.

Throughout the process, startling details about the former Sinaloa cartel leader were revealed. The bribes that "El Chapo" paid to top Mexican officials, details about his love life and anecdotes about unsettling performances are just some of the stories told in this call. "judgment of the century"

Bribes to former presidents

The third day of the process, the brother of "Mayo", Jesus "the king" Zambada, was called to testify as a key witness of the US government. The employee of the Sinaloa cartel from 1987 to his arrest in 2008 stated that "el Chapo" and "el Mayo" were partners and cartel officials.

He stated that the two bribes co-ordinated at the Attorney General's Office (PMP), the police, the army and even theat Interpol. "The King" made it clear that he controlled the cartel's activity in Mexico City, a place where bribes for officials were rising in $ 300,000 a month.

In his testimony, he accused of receiving bribes from the narco to the former president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, the former president Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, former Secretary of Security Genaro García Luna and one Gabriel Regino, former badociate of the current elected president.

Minutes after these statements, Eduardo Sánchez, spokesman for Peña Nieto, and Felipe Calderón, They called the accusations "false".

During the second week of the trial, the statuette of Jesús Malverde, the so-called "saint" of Mexican drug traffickers who is not recognized by the Church.

The silhouette of about 15.5 centimeters tall, shaped like a man sitting on a purple throne with a handful of bills in one hand and a gold bag in the other, is appeared on the shelf of a bookshelf.

"Miraculously appeared"said one of Guzmán Loera's lawyers when the press asked him what the statue of the saint was doing there.

The lawyer replied that the "saint" had appeared there a week earlier, when he had begun to testify on behalf of the accusation Jesus "the king" Zambada, former partner of "Chapo" in the cartel of Sinaloa and brother of Ishmael "el Mayo". Zambada, fugitive leader of the criminal group.

Malverse is an icon of "narcoculture"in Mexico and even has its own chapel in Sinaloa, hometown of" El Chapo "and his cartel.

The site is famous because there are dollars stuck to the ceiling and walls.

"My compadre is not my enemy"

"This is a real dealer who works with drugs, a cartel leader like my father"El Vicentillo" answered when the prosecutor Amanda Liskmann asked him if "El Chapo" was a real criminal or a myth who lived hidden in the mountains without doing anything.

On the same day, the defense lawyer, Eduardo Balarezo, accused the "Vicentillo" that the information he had provided at trial made him an opponent of Guzmán.

"My compadre Chapo is not my enemy"said the son of" El Mayo "Zambada, badigned by the prosecution.

"He knew that I would testify (against) because I had pleaded guilty when he was free with my father and that I had promised to cooperate with the prosecution," insisted Vicentillo, who reaffirmed : "I do not see the future and I did not know that my compadre Chapo would be here. This is not my enemy"

During the last three days of his testimony against his father's former partner, and after 14 hours of reporting, Vicentillo Zambada bade farewell to his "Companre Chapo". with an educated head sign. The defendant corresponded and this is probably the last time that the two former leaders of the Sinaloa cartel met face to face.

Colombian drug trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez, aka "Chupeta"It was one of the witnesses of the American government against Joaquín" El Chapo "Guzmán." This is probably one of the people cited by lawyer Jeffrey Lichtamn when he said that many witnesses had cooperated. "trash", because they testified against" El Chapo "only to get a reduced sentence.

One of the statements made by "El Chupeta" during the trial and which scandalized the media was when I corrected that in the 1990s so many planes with coca arrived that it seemed that Colombia had "invaded" Mexico.

"Chupeta" said that his trading relationship with Joaquín el "Chapo" Guzmán had started in the 1990s and that he had sold his cocaine "of the best quality", which the capo had then brought to the United States.

"El Chupeta" said that Guzmán Loera had ordered the killing of at least 150 people and that he had transferred at least 400 tons of Colombian drug from Mexico to the United States.

"Let a judge decide if my husband is guilty"

After two years without giving interviews, Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of "El Chapo" Guzmán, spoke with the chain Telemundo about her husband.
About the bosses who accused her husband of asking for benefits, she said, "I do not mind this."

"I want to think that everything will be fair according to the laws in force. Everything is going to be right for him and for us"she said during her interview in the early days of December and a month before she was involved in a serious crime for the first time, after allegedly planning her husband's escape from prison. Altiplano in Almoloya.

"I did not do anything illegal. I think it's more than clear, they must have already checked me out, but that's part of the whole process that he's currently living in and we hope that a judge will decide whether or not it's going to happen. he is guilty or not, "he said at the time.

One of the Prosecution witnesses who paraded in the courtroom was: an ex-lover of capo, whose testimony has given much to talk.

Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez LópezThe 29-year-old MP had a brilliant career until she met Sinaloa's cartel leader. She testified that she was confused because she thought her relationship with the drug dealer was "a relationship"

During her testimony, she stated that she felt "betrayed lovingly" by "El Chapo".

Lucero revealed that the relationship with the capo started around February 2011, when the colonel was pregnant with twins, who were born in August of this year.

"Hermosura" or "Mr. .." were their screen names in the text messages that he was exchanging with Chapo in the "arranged" Blackberries that he sent out and changed it every two weeks.

The woman faces a 10-year sentence to life imprisonment for trafficking cocaine, but she hopes to get a reduction in her sentence for collaborating with the government.

"El Chapo" and the cruel methods of torture that he imposed

Isaías Valdez Ríos, aka Memin or Memo, who started working as one of the "Chapo" sicarios in the hills of Sinaloa in 2004, told the court that he had seen his boss kill a member of the rival cartel Arellano Felix.

After leaving for days locked in a kind of henhouse, arms and hands bound and blindfolded, El Chapo told him "Fuck your mother!and he fired it with his .25 caliber pistol.

Although the man was still breathing, "we put him in the hole and buried him," Memin told me.

Memin also said that "El Chapo" tortured and executed two members of the rival Zetas cartel. He explained that the corporal hit them with a log, shot them in the head and threw their bodies in a bonfire.

"They had a face scared by these people …"Memin said.

The murder of Javier Valdez

The son of Mexican capuch Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera killed the Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenasbecause he insisted on publishing an interview with the drug trafficker Dámaso López Núñez, known as Licenciado or Lic, against his will, said López Núñez himself.

Valdez Cárdenas "disobeyed the threatening orders of the children of my compadre and that is why they killed him," Licenciado told the New York court in the trial against Guzmán Loera.

Valdez was a specialist in drug trafficking, co-founder of the weekly Ríodoce in Sinaloa (north-west) and a contributor to AFP, was shot in Culiacán, Sinaloa, on May 15, 2017.

The children of Guzmán Loera "threatened all the members of the editorial board to obtain a note and forced the interview not to be withdrawn, but because the journalist was full, he published it , disobeying the orders of the children of my compadre and published it, "accused Lopez Nunez at the Court.