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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'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

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

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

23 killed in day of horror for Mexico border city
Gang violence leaves 14 headless bodies stuffed in a vehicle and 9 bodies hanging from a bridge