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The high-security trial of the infamous Mexican drug dealer Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán began on Tuesday with the defense claiming that the so-called true leader of the Sinaloa cartel had paid millions of dollars in bribes to the former president of Mexico and the current president To avoid his capture.
Jeffrey Lichtman, Guzmán's lawyer, said that the real cartel leader who had sent tons of cocaine to the United States was Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who had paid the former president millions of dollars Felipe Calderón and his successor, the current president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón tweeted that these accusations were "absolutely false and irresponsible".
defamatory. "
The prosecutor's office, which opened the lawsuit by posing as the man who began his career in Mexico, a modest marijuana sales company has become the leader of one." smuggling operation tainted with blood, accusing Guzman of devoting a large part of his fortune to corruption.
Deputy Attorney Adam Fels commented on his members of a jury in a New York City court that Guzman paid to the Mexican army and police and intended to finance the acquisition of rifles, grenade launcher and explosives in order to participate "in a bloody war after the other "
Guzmán sent badbadins to eliminate competition" and "waged wars against their former partners (including their cousins)," said Fels.
"El Chapo", kept in isolation since his extradition to the United States early last year, he pleaded not guilty to the charge of having accumulated a fortune of several million dollars by trafficking tons of cocaine and other drugs in a vast supply chain that has reached New York, New Jersey, Texas and others. parts of the United States.
If he is found guilty, he faces a life sentence.
The prosecution stated that she would use thousands of documents, videos and recordings as evidence, including material relating to the drug traffickers' shelters and the Guzman Escape in 2015, as well as in the operation to re-arrest it.
Fels explained to the jury how Guzmán began his career in the early 1970s, when he sold marijuana in Mexico and that he made a reputation by building tunnels across the US-Mexican border to transport marijuana and cocaine faster.
Before their tunnels existed, it took weeks to get drugs to the United States
In a short time, Guzmán began receiving 10 to 15 "cocaine-filled" planes from from Colombia and serving runways in Mexico. It will move freight to cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, Fels said.
As its trade grew with the use of tunnels, trains, planes and boats, Guzmán began attacking his rivals early in the year. the 1990s, which provoked bloody clashes. In 1993, he escaped to Guatemala, but was captured and jailed in Mexico for eight years, where he continued to exploit his drug empire, Fels added.
The prosecutor referred to the two escapes from Guzmán prison. He was extradited to the United States.
Guzman's trial is expected to last until next year.
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