The jury returns to hear the testimony and the resolution of the trial of Chapo Guzmán will take longer than expected

In the midst of growing expectations regarding the conviction of Mexican narco chief Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, the jury asked to reconsider the allegations of three witnesses, which represents two weeks of testimony. it will take longer than expected.

On its third day of debate, the jury sent a note to Judge Brian Cogan of New York, charged with the case, to ask him listen to the testimonials of Reinaldo "Rey" Zambada, his nephew Vicente Zambada and Dámaso López Núñez, known as "the right hand and the left hand" of Chapo.

After hearing the requests of the jury and the possibility of more and more precise that the decision takes more time than expected, the main lawyer of Chapo, Eduardo Balarezo, He was confident.

"We feel good, we are calm," he said in court after hearing the jury's requests to the judge, before adding: "It's very interesting, it means that consider all the tests and thinking a lot about what they will say. "

The jury began deliberating on Monday, after hearing the judge's instructions, after three months of trial in which 56 witnesses, 14 of whom agreed to cooperate with the US government, sat down. Twelve of them are waiting to receive a reducing your sentence in the USA.

Guzmán, former head of Sinaloa's 61-year-old cartel, is charged with 11 counts of drug trafficking, conspiracy and money laundering, for which he could be convicted 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.