With the lost look: it is so that "El Chapo" received the verdict of the jury

Stunned and with a lost look. Thus "El Chapo" Guzmán reacted when the verdict was pronounced and was convicted of ten serious counts on Tuesday 12 February.

Dressed in a black suit, a gray shirt and a dark tie; the capo was stunned as Judge Brian Cogan read the verdict.

After hearing the words of the magistrate, Guzmán watched his wife Emma Coronel and made a gesture that some journalists interpreted as a signal to calm her down. With tears in her eyes, she answered, raising her thumb.

Before retiring, the former Sinaloa cartel leader again looked at his wife, then touched her heart.

William Purpura, one of the defense lawyers, said the capo was ready for today and that he was a "strong" man.
"It's a guy who never gives upadded Jeffrey Lichtman, another lawyer who defended Guzmán Loera.

Richard Donoghue, federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York, said the verdict was a victory for US authorities and for Mexico ",where more than 100,000 people died from the violence of drug trafficking ".

Journalist Keegan Hamilton, in charge of covering the case of Vice NewsHe said the most memorable moment for him was the day Guzmán Loera headed to the courtroom to hear the verdict.

"The atmosphere was electric. El Chapo was dressed in his suit and tie and suddenly stopped. He did not smile, but he seemed happy, like he knew that he was the star of the show"

At the same time, the US Department of Justice issued a statement in which he stated that "Guzmán Loera's bloody reign over the Sinaloa cartel summit has come to an end and the myth that can not be brought before the justice stayed in the story. "

"Of course, we will appeal", Responded Lichtman's lawyer when they asked him what was happening now.

Blanca Rosa Vilchez, journalist sitting next to Coronel, said Univision Shortly before the hearing, one of the lawyers of "El Chapo" asked the former beauty queen to offer him disposable tissues.

Colonel, stoic, said: "I do not need any papers, because today I am not going to cry. "

The woman tried to stay calm and once the verdict was over, the reporter returned and told her that she was sorry.

"Because? Nobody died here "replied the capo's wife.