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Gun battle over El Chapo legacy leaves 16 dead in Mexico
Mike Vigil, formerly of the US Drug Enforcement Agency, says Guzman's 3 sons – known as the 'Chapitos,' or little Chapos – were engaged in a fight for control of the cartel

Mexico court jails man over murder of journalist Valdez
Javier Valdez Cardenas was co-founder of the weekly newspaper Riodoce and was one of the most prominent chroniclers of Mexico's deadly drug war in a state where notorious kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman once reigned

Mexican town turned to war zone fears new era of narco violence
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government deploys 400 reinforcement troops to the streets of Culiacan. Not everyone is happy with the tactic.
Mexico admits freeing Chapo's son after 'badly planned' operation
(UPDATED) Defense Minister Luis Sandoval says soldiers briefly arrested Ovidio Guzman but released him after being overpowered by cartel gunmen

Drug kingpin El Chapo sentenced to life in U.S. prison
(UPDATED) A US court sentences Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman to life in prison plus a symbolic 30 years, as well as ordering the former mob boss to pay back $12.6 billion of the proceeds of his crimes

Prosecutors seek life in prison for El Chapo
El Chapo is to be sentenced on the morning of July 17 after being convicted on February 12 of crimes spanning a quarter of a century

El Chapo's wife to launch clothing brand using drug lord's name
Emma Coronel, wife of Mexican mob boss El Chapo, is creating a fashion line called JGL, using her husband's initials

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Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' convicted by New York jury
Joaquin Guzman, former boss of the Sinaloa cartel – famed for his brazen escapes from Mexican prisons – faces life in prison for smuggling tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the US

U.S. prosecutors to El Chapo jury: 'Do not let him escape'
'We've presented an avalanche of evidence,' said US federal prosecutors to the jury in the trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman. 'Do not let him escape responsibility. Hold him accountable for his crimes. Find him guilty on all counts.'

'El Chapo' trial: A 3-month plunge into the bloody ways of the drug trade
The trial has drawn a blood-soaked picture of the Sinaloa cartel, once led by Mexican drug boss Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman

Ex-lover of Narcos boss: El Chapo turned me into drug smuggler
A former mistress of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman testifies that the cartel leader lured her into a life as a drug trafficker

El Chapo's secret messages to his wife and lover revealed
Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman spied on both his beauty queen wife, Emma Coronel, and the lover, Agustina Cabanillas Acosta, using a surveillance system installed in encrypted Blackberries he gave them

Colombian confesses to over 150 murders at El Chapo trial
US government turncoat, Juan Carlos 'Chupeta' Ramirez, is allegedly one of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's two main Colombian suppliers

El Chapo trial details suitcase stuffed with millions for ex-minister
Jesus Zambada, a government informant held in US custody since 2008, says the bribes were delivered in person to Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico's former public security minister, in 2005-2006

Mexican presidents accused as defense opens El Chapo trial
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, one of the world's most notorious criminals, is on trial in New York after twice escaping from prison in Mexico

U.S. allows 'El Chapo' to write to wife from behind bars
Federal Judge Brian Cogan rules that Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman could send written messages to his wife – provided they were pre screened by federal agencies – but denies him family visits and phone calls

Amnesty concerned over 'El Chapo' detention conditions
Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman s court appointed lawyers has said that the isolation he is subjected to at the New York federal prison is harming his physical and mental health

Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' pleads not guilty in U.S.
US prosecutors say Joaquin El Chapo Guzman s Sinaloa cartel is responsible for distributing hundreds of thousands of kilos of heroin cocaine methamphetamine and marijuana throughout the United States
Extradited Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' arrives in U.S.
His extradition caps a Hollywood worthy cat and mouse game between Mexican authorities and the slippery 59 year old drug lord who escaped from prison twice

Extradited Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' arrives in U.S.
3rd UPDATE His extradition caps a Hollywood worthy cat and mouse game between Mexican authorities and the slippery drug lord who escaped twice from prison

Guzman relative says 'El Chapo' son released in Mexico
A relative of the family said Joaquin Guzman s son was freed together with 5 other men he was kidnapped with

Mexico fears new cartel war after 'El Chapo' son abducted
Police confirm that Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar – one of Guzman s sons from his first marriage – was abducted from an upscale bar in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta on August 15 along with 5 other men

'Narconomics': Lessons for the Philippines' war vs drugs
Lowering the age of criminality in the Philippines should be reconsidered Throwing children in jail cells with hardened criminals may actually strengthen drug lords’ ability to recruit fresh talent – hardening youth who could have otherwise been saved from a life of crime and drugs

'El Chapo' appeals extradition to US
The appeal comes a week after the foreign ministry announced it had agreed to extradite Guzman who escaped from a maximum security prison in July 2015 and was recaptured in January

Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' undergoes jail transfer – official
The authorities say they are moving Guzman to prevent any escape attempt during construction to strengthen his maximum security prison in Altiplano

Mexican ex-leader says authorities fear El Chapo extradition
Former president Vicente Fox: Why hasn t he been extradited? Perhaps because there is fear that he will squeal that he will spill the beans

Mexican drug lord Chapo wants quick extradition to US – lawyer
Joaquin El Chapo Guzman who was recaptured on January 8 after tunneling out of his previous jail cell in a spectacular escape makes the request in an act of desperation according to his lawyer Jose Refugio Rodriguez in a radio interview

Actress 'will not go' to Mexico to be quizzed on 'El Chapo'
Authorities are investigating whether drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman invested in Kate del Castillo s tequila brand A financial transaction involving illicitly obtained money would amount to money laundering

Mexico probes if actress's company got money from El Chapo
Mexican authorities find signs that drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman invested in the tequila business of actress Kate Del Castillo

Mexico asks actress to testify on Chapo links
US Mexican star Kate del Castillo has come under scrutiny since it was revealed last week that she exchanged affectionate text messages with Guzman and brokered a meeting between the Sinaloa drug cartel honcho and US actor Sean Penn

Mexican director Iñarritu defends Sean Penn's meeting with El Chapo
The Mexican filmmaker says the Hollywood actor had every right to look for the Mexican drug lord
Sean Penn's Guzman article irks journalists in Mexico
To call the encounter between actor Sean Penn and Chapo journalism is an insult to journalists in Mexico and beyond who paid the ultimate price seeking truth says Alfredo Corchado a Mexico born journalist
'El Chapo' extradition could take a year
Mexico received the US extradition requests last year on a slew of charges including drug trafficking and homicide Guzman is wanted in half a dozen US states

Mexico wants to question Sean Penn over 'El Chapo' meeting
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough tells CNN that Penn s meeting with Guzman poses a lot of interesting questions for him and others involved in this so called interview We ll see what happens

The actor and the drug lord: How Sean Penn met 'El Chapo'
Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez says that Guzman met with unnamed actors and producers hoping to make a biopic about himself but gave no further details

Sean Penn interview helped 'El Chapo' capture – Mexico
UPDATED I supply more heroin methamphetamine cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world Joaquin Guzman tells Penn in a stunning admission of his criminal enterprise over sips of tequila

Mexico aims to extradite drug lord 'El Chapo' to US
US politicians call for the drug baron s extradition as he faces drug trafficking and murder charges in a half dozen states

Captured Mexico kingpin: 'The Lord of Tunnels'
UPDATED The man whose old nickname means Shorty uses the money from a drug empire whose tentacles reach Europe and Asia to dig himself out of trouble again and again

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Mexico seizes planes, homes in search for drug lord
The operations have led to the seizure of several properties weapons drugs trucks and motorcycles over the past 3 months including 11 planes

Mexico arrests kingpin's escape pilot, brother-in-law
The pair are among 6 more people detained in connection with Guzman s prison escape

Cops from US to Australia in hunt for Mexican drug lord – DEA
Police from around the world are on the case of Mexican drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman relying on human intelligence and electronic surveillance to track him down

Mexico police search hotels, hospitals for drug lord
Some 8 200 federal police officers are on maximum alert in every state the interior ministry says

Mexico shows video of drug lord Guzman escape
UPDATED Prosecutors formally detain 22 officials from the Altiplano prison outside Mexico City amid suspicions of an inside job

Mexico hunts drug kingpin, probes prison guards
Troops and police man checkpoints and hunt for Joaquin El Chapo Guzman after he vanished late Saturday July 11 from the Altiplano prison

Mexico drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman escapes prison again
Guzman 58 whose Sinaloa cartel shipped narcotics across the globe was considered the world s most wanted drug lord before his arrest

Mexican court says drug lord can't avoid US extradition
A Mexican court rejects an appeal by drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman to avoid extradition to the United States in the absence of any formal request
Mexican judge orders trial for drug kingpin
Mexican authorities are hard pressed to show they can convict the world s most wanted drug lord