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Alex Cifuentes, one of El Chapo's former secretaries and his cocaine supplier for years, said that a woman had sent criminal photos of girls 13 and older. He then chose the one he wanted to make love with, paying $ 5,000 for each one.

Cifuentes himself used this service three or four times to have bad with teens sometimes as young as 15, according to the US government in court filings. The witness also stated that he "had seen the defendant do the same thing over and over with girls who, at times, were only 13 years old".

Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, 61, head of the Sinaloa cartel, sometimes drugged them with "powdered substance" before raping them, with the help of Cifuentes, said the witness, a follower of witchcraft who believes in UFOs and was convinced that the apocalypse would take place in 2012, according to the indictment documents.

However, Cifuentes, who lived in 2007 and 2008 with El Chapo in the mountains of Sinaloa, did not mention anything of this during his four days of testimony during the El Chapo trial, which took place during is completed Thursday after three months of hearing.

The jury, which does not have the right to read anything related to the trial in the press or social networks, will not be able to take this information into account when it starts to discuss , from Monday (4), whether the drug dealer is guilty or not. traffic of hundreds of tons of drugs in the United States.

"Joaquín denies the allegations, which have not been proven and have been deemed unreliable to be admitted to trial," said the defendant's lawyer, Eduardo Balarezo, in a statement. statement sent by email.

"It is unfortunate that the documents were made public shortly before the jury deliberations," he added.

If El Chapo is convicted, he may be sentenced to life imprisonment.

The publication of these documents, previously kept confidential, is due to a lawsuit filed by the American press which, throughout the trial, fought against the secrecy surrounding the case.

Another document released on Saturday (2) indicates that El Chapo raped a witness at trial before starting a romantic relationship with her. Of the 14 witnesses who collaborated, the only woman was Lucero Sánchez, lover of El Chapo and former partner, now 29 years old.