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# El Chapo

This year
2023
# El Raton
29 people killed in arrest of son of notorious drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman
The 32-year-old was rounded up yesterday in the northwestern city of Culiacan.
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Jan 6th 2023, 9:37 PM
# El Raton
Mexico arrests son of notorious drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman
The 32-year-old, nicknamed ‘El Raton’, has allegedly helped to run his father’s drug trafficking operations since El Chapo was extradited to the US.
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Jan 5th 2023, 9:18 PM
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# Washington
El Chapo’s wife pleads guilty to drugs charges
Emma Coronel Aispuro admitted conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine for several years.
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Jun 10th 2021, 8:30 PM
# Emma Coronel Aispuro
US judge says wife of drug kingpin El Chapo must stay in jail
US Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather explained the charges to Coronel, who spoke to the judge through a Spanish interpreter.
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Feb 24th 2021, 7:29 AM
# Emma Coronel Aispuro
Wife of drug kingpin El Chapo arrested at US airport
Emma Coronel Aispuro, who is a dual citizen of the US and Mexico, was arrested at Dulles International Airport.
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Feb 23rd 2021, 7:06 AM
# Ovidio Guzman Lopez
El Chapo's son arrested then freed again as Mexican police overpowered in violent gun fight
Ovidio Guzman Lopez is reported to be alive and free after Mexican authorities suspended their operation.
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Oct 18th 2019, 8:58 AM
# Joaquin Guzman
Drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to life in US prison
Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in February.
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Jul 17th 2019, 4:23 PM
# supermax
El Chapo expected to go to 'prison of prisons' described as 'high-tech version of hell'
The facility in Colorado houses some of the United States’ most notorious criminals.
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Feb 13th 2019, 8:19 AM
# MEXICAN MOBSTER
'A tremendous victory for the rule of law': El Chapo found guilty in New York trial
The former head of the Sinaloa cartel was accused of smuggling drugs into the US over a 25-year period.
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Feb 12th 2019, 8:00 PM
# Sinaloa cartel
Jury in El Chapo trial begins deliberations amid drug smuggling and sex abuse claims
The trial in New York has heard nearly three months of testimony.
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Feb 4th 2019, 8:37 PM
# Joaquin Guzman
El Chapo 'drugged and raped teenage girls', according to claims in court documents
The claims were not featured in the three-month trial which ended on Thursday.
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Feb 3rd 2019, 1:50 PM
# Drug Cartel
El Chapo's lawyer says trial witnesses can't be trusted and 'would sell a child for cocaine'
The Mexican drug kingpin faces life in prison if convicted on trafficking, firearms and money laundering charges.
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Feb 1st 2019, 8:54 AM
# El Chapo
'El Chapo' boasted of paying $100m bribe to former Mexican president, trial hears
Alex Cifuentes spoke about the alleged bribe to President Ernesto Pena Nieto during his testimony today in Guzman’s trial in New York.
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Jan 15th 2019, 10:38 PM
# New York
El Chapo's high life: Court hears of Swiss clinics, mansions and a private zoo
One of El Chapo’s former associates gave a glimpse into his life of excess.
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Nov 28th 2018, 10:25 AM
# Cocaine
New York trial told that drug baron 'El Chapo' Guzman was leader of deadly Sinaloa cartel, not scapegoat
He is accused of leading the Sinaloa cartel, turning it into the world’s largest criminal group.
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Nov 14th 2018, 10:22 PM
# El Chapo
Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' goes on trial in New York today
The mammoth trial in Brooklyn is expected to last more than four months.
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Nov 5th 2018, 3:12 PM
# warring cartels
Murders, corruption and crime: The hell of Mexican prisons
Gangs have effective control of cell blocks in some jails and fight among themselves triggering riots, murders and escapes.
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Jun 5th 2017, 7:30 AM
# Ines Coronel Barreras
As drug lord El Chapo awaits trial, his father-in-law is sentenced to 10 years
Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman is facing charges in the US of running one of the world’s biggest drug empires.
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Apr 29th 2017, 2:13 PM
# Joaquin Guzman
Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' pleads not guilty in US
Guzman, one of the world’s most notorious criminals, has been extradited to the US to face charges.
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Jan 20th 2017, 10:35 PM
# On the Lam
Drug lord El Chapo snuck into the US twice while on the run, daughter claims
She claims that while a fugitive from the law, Guzman crossed the border twice to visit family, with the help of politicians.
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Mar 4th 2016, 9:43 PM
# Mexico
Video footage shows violent raid on safe house of drug lord 'El Chapo'
Marines found a tunnel that led to Mexico’s storm sewer.
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Jan 12th 2016, 8:21 AM
# so this happened
Here is what happened when Sean Penn met the world's most notorious drug lord
The Mexican government has said that it wishes to question Penn.
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Jan 11th 2016, 9:21 AM
# Drug Lord
Sean Penn met with El Chapo in a jungle for an exclusive interview
The meeting eventually led to the drug lord’s capture.
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Jan 10th 2016, 7:48 AM
# Biopic
Recaptured Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' wanted to make a film about himself
Joaquin Guzman had even contacted actresses and producers.
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Jan 9th 2016, 8:38 AM
# got him
Fugitive drug kingpin El Chapo has been caught, Mexican president says
He had been on the run since July.
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Jan 8th 2016, 6:42 PM
# very dangerous men
Here's how the two most infamous drug barons in history compare with each other
Colombia’s Pablo Escobar and Mexico’s Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman proved to be a law unto themselves.
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Nov 8th 2015, 9:15 AM
# sexy donald trump
Donald Trump and a notorious drug lord dominate Mexico's Halloween costume market
Trump and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman are public enemy numbers one and two in Mexico at present.
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Oct 24th 2015, 9:45 AM
# El Chapo
Leader of world's most dangerous drug gang hurts face and leg, but still manages to slip away
He has been on the run since breaking out of prison in July.
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Oct 17th 2015, 8:51 AM
# El Chapo
CCTV captures Mexican drug lord's audacious escape from prison
He even had a motorbike waiting for him
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Jul 15th 2015, 9:00 PM
# plot twist
Mexican drug lord still on the run as his son threatens to kill Donald Trump
It’s a complicated story.
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Jul 14th 2015, 12:49 PM
# El Chapo
Mexico thought this infamous drug lord wouldn't escape from prison again
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is on the run.
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Jul 12th 2015, 1:00 PM