Two separate games of wits promise to fill much of the rest of this season — drug lord versus drug lord, and lawyer versus lawyer.
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We talked to El Chapo's lawyer about defending a notorious drug lord We talked to El Chapo's lawyer about defending a notorious drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is due back in court Monday, and the top item on the agenda will be deciding who gets to defend the accused Mexican drug lord when his trial begins in April.
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Below, a quick primer on the famous drug lord. 21998.
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She lacks foresight necessary to be a prison drug lord.
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He wants drug lord El Chapo to pay for it.
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" Being a drug lord is not "all cocaine and women. . . .
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It's not easy to bring a drug lord to trial.
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She says this intelligence helped locate the fugitive drug lord.
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Apparently, Wendy is now the confidante of a drug lord.
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Who was the drug lord, and where was the helicopter?
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Cartels fighting to take over for captured drug lord El Chapo.
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Soon, she's starring in an HBO movie about a drug lord.
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The infamous drug lord has been in solitary confinement since Jan.
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The drug lord then asked Penn not to publish their names.
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The drug lord is widely known for escaping Mexican authorities twice.
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Felix has leveled up in drug lord status, and he's loving it.
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Ronnie recognizes her dad's mobster-drug lord machinations have gone too far.
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The drug lord was photographed and videotaped wearing two styles of them.
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The drug lord moved in last week, mere days before the raid.
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The drug lord reportedly contacted producers to make a "Narcos" style biopic.
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Honestly, I was more afraid of imprisonment than execution by drug lord.
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A firefight ensued, and the Tijuana drug lord fled toward a hotel.
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The game reenacts the 2014 manhunt for drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
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As a businessman, though, he has learned from his father's drug lord friends.
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He's a drug lord, so he wants you to know he's got status.
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"I'm looking forward to being a drug lord," Anita joking told the Times.
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" There is even a movie in the works in Hollywood, "American Drug Lord.
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When Penn finally ate dinner with the drug lord, del Castillo joined them.
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And among the Ls the drug lord suffered -- no visits from his wife.
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The Biggest Drug Lord of All Time will be caged up in supermax.
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Here's a flashback from Penn's divisive interview with Mexican drug lord El Chapo.
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It was the hometown of the drug lord Pablo Escobar, not his birthplace.
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But then the drug lord leader of this group threatened to kill me.
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Even the trial of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman took three months.
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And why were the mayor and a drug lord in a helicopter together?
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" — TREVOR NOAH "They're always going to find Mexican drug lord El Chapo guilty.
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Every court appearance by the world's most notorious drug lord is an event.
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Not every Latinx needs to be criminal, drug lord, or the loud, outspoken friend.
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He's in deep with a Mexican drug lord and needs to find a payoff.
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Penn's interview with Guzman was published the day after the drug lord was recaptured.
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Nor did his dad attack rival drug lord Gilberto Rodriquez's daughter at her wedding.
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Higuita was an avowed close friend of the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán wasn't always the most infamous drug lord in the world.
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After delays, convicted drug lord Joaquín Guzman is again due to learn his fate.
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The Guadalajara cartel had many drug lord legends besides El Padrino like you said.
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Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family.
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People love ... The NFL is like a drug lord and football is like crack.
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The city was once best known as the base of drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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To rip off and murder a South American drug lord in his own home.
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Drug lord Pablo Escobar kept four hippos at the illegal zoo on his estate.
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In Colombia, an entire city is wrestling with its association with a long-dead drug lord: If the Colombian city cannot bury the memory of the drug lord Pablo Escobar, it at least wants to control how and where his story gets told.
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Let's let get our Welsh friend Cathrine Zeta-Jones to play a Colombian drug-lord.
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Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is reportedly suffering from hallucinations while in jail.
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Sinaloa was formerly led by the world's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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January 231 - Mexican security forces arrest Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in Sinaloa.
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Although the drug lord is purportedly a billionaire, he was initially represented by public defenders.
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The drug lord wanted the actress's help in spearheading a movie project about his life.
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He's sharing the facility with Paul Manafort and Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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The drug lord wanted the actress' help in spearheading a movie project about his life.
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His attorneys requested a new trial This is the latest request from the drug lord.
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He had just fled Colombia and the carnage of Pablo Escobar, the notorious drug lord.
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Penn said that Del Castillo brokered the meeting and was close to the drug lord.
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But by the tenth episode of the first season, he's a fully corrupt drug lord.
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They learned about the target — and fiasco — hours after the drug lord had been released.
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Withdrawing these would leave the drug lord with far less bargaining power in any negotiations.
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Guzman Loera, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug Cartel, was considered the Mexican most-wanted drug lord.
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Chuck Grassley wants to know if Mexican drug lord "El Chapo" Guzman entered the United States.
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The two are also working together on an upcoming series about Mexican drug lord El Chapo.
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Family members of the drug lord have raised their public profile considerably since his re-arrest.
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Efforts to catch the drug lord became more apparent after Ahmed Karzai was killed in 2011.
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Mexican officials now say Penn's interactions with the fugitive drug lord helped investigators track him down.
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Through Guzmán's legal team the actress and drug lord wrote to each other regarding the project.
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As a warlord and a drug lord, Salvatore Mancuso was a bigger player than Mr. Giraldo.
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In the 1980s, drug lord Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos into Colombia for his personal zoo.
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That was the second time that the drug lord had escaped from a maximum-security facility.
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Mexican federal officials have confirmed that the drug lord appears to have been infatuated with the actress.
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The Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo is awaiting trial in the jail's most secure wing.
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Yesterday the jury began its deliberations in the trial of "El Chapo", an alleged Mexican drug lord.
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If Felix is blossoming into a masterful drug lord, he has the government of Mexico to thank.
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I'm no drug lord or drug expert, but I did my best keep everyone and everything straight.
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In January, drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera – otherwise known as "el Chapo" – was recaptured by Mexican marines.
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During that meeting, the drug lord agreed to another interview at a later time, Rolling Stone reported.
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" Some of the packages also featured the face of the Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo.
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On Thursday, Mexican forces briefly apprehended drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's son Ovidio Guzman in Culiacán.
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During that meeting, the drug lord agreed to another interview at a later time, Rolling Stone reported.
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Letting the drug lord slip away for a third time would be devastating to Peña Nieto's administration.
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One figure rises over the carnage, almost like a religious idol: the infamous drug lord El Chapo.
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Surveillance of the actress because of her communications with the drug lord reportedly began in August 2014.
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Maybe it was a Colombian drug lord, or the dreamy DEA agents on his tail in Narcos.
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How is it possible that defeating a drug lord or cartel doesn't stop the flow of drugs?
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Attorneys for convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman must seek a new trial by this deadline.
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I asked Whitney White, who directs "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord," what makes spiritualism difficult to stage.
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El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord, operated undetected for years by running his cartel using encrypted messages.
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Penn appeared on 60 Minutes in January to defend his controversial interview with the notorious drug lord.
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McFarland claimed to have purchased a Bahamian island, Norman's Cay, formerly owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Escobar, who died in 1993, was a Colombian drug lord who built a multibillion-dollar empire dealing cocaine.
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Guzman's lawyer contacted in 2014 to talk about producing a biopic of the drug lord, according to Milenio.
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PEOPLE has your first look at Zeta-Jones as Miami drug lord Griselda Blanco in Lifetime's Cocaine Godmother.
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Wiz Khalifa has caused upset after paying tribute to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in his hometown Medellin.
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Kate del Castillo continues to reveal information about her meeting with Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Shame on Penn, del Castillo and Rolling Stone for irresponsibly promoting themselves -- and for glorifying a drug lord.
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But if the world's most notorious drug lord is out of sight, he's definitely not out of mind.
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The U.S. government is seeking $14 billion from the drug lord as part of its prosecution of Guzman.
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Joaquin Guzman Loera, the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo, is being extradited to the United States.
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So, the drug lord is bad, as are at least some on the police force in South Americaville.
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In Brazil police arrested Luiz Carlos da Rocha, an alleged drug lord who had evaded capture for 30 years.
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Over the years, British star Idris Elba has portrayed a drug lord, Nelson Mandela and an obsessive London detective.
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"I am afraid for his life," said Emma Coronel of her husband — imprisoned drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
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Isabella is situated in the same strange, morally gray territory of all the other drug-lord characters on Narcos.
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" The star, who will portray the Colombian drug lord, added: "This happens to be the third Hispanic I've played.
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Even when Ms. del Castillo suggested bringing along Mr. Penn for an interview, the drug lord did not flinch.
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But to many, the longer the drug lord remains in prison in Mexico, the higher the risk of flight.
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MEXICO CITY — Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous drug lord known as El Chapo, had never heard of Sean Penn.
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The actor conducted the only interview with the notorious drug lord to ever occur outside of an interrogation room.
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The actor writes that the drug lord treated her "like a daughter returning from college" when they got there.
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The drug lord was nabbed in his native Sinaloa state after a shootout that killed six of his people.
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The target: Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the man considered to be the most wanted drug lord in the world.
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The brother of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar has accused Elon Musk of intellectual-property theft, TMZ reported.
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" Penn asked Chapo about Donald Trump and his comments about Mexicans ... and the drug lord called Trump "Mi amigo.
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Multiple people accused him of being a drug lord, arguing he kept class A narcotics stashed in his locker.
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The Manhattan jail holding the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo is said to be tougher than Guantánamo.
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Federal police chasing reports of stolen cars had no idea they were onto the world's most wanted drug lord.
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Under the jail's "Special Administrative Measures," the drug lord isn't allowed to communicate with anyone other than his lawyers.
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At one point the drug lord 's lawyer said conditions were so bad his client wanted to be extradited.
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The world's most-wanted drug lord slipped out of the house via a tunnel and then stole a car.
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Lawyer: Guzman is 'suffering from distress' The attorney described what she called a series of punishments against the drug lord.
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The app uses the same story line as the series, which follows Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's rise to notoriety.
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The drug lord was detained by security forces and taken to a love motel while the officers waited for backup.
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She's set to star in an HBO film about the life of Miami drug lord Griselda Blanco, according to E!
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A Mexican marine Special Forces sniper trained his rifle on the fugitive drug lord, but was told to stand down.
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In the letter to the judge, the attorney described what she called a series of punishments against the drug lord.
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"It's a big opportunity to have someone tell their story, being alive and being the biggest drug lord," she said.
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The piece cited the drug lord boasting about smuggling drugs into the United States, and about laundering ill-gotten gains.
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The son of Mexican drug lord Joaquén "El Chapo" Guzmén has been kidnapped in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, according to reports.
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Breaking Bad documented teacher Walter White's (Bryan Cranston) ascent to drug lord alongside meth-cooking partner Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
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The notorious drug lord is being extradited to the US, a spokesperson for the Mexican Attorney General told ABC News.
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One accused drug lord, Melvin Odicta, known as the Dragon, surrendered to the police late last month and was released.
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Hell, for all I know Yeezy might be to clinical depression what Rick Ross is to being a drug lord.
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The witness, Alex Cifuentes Villa, is a Colombian drug lord who worked closely with Mr. Guzmán from 2000 to 2013.
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It seems he went into the superstore and started telling people the famous drug lord Omar Navarro was after him.
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Shows like "The Thin Place" and "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" use the occult to put on a show. Listen.
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The Jamaican drug lord Christopher M. Coke, who is known as Dudus, sends the editors letters from his federal penitentiary.
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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán would plead guilty if extradited to the United States, a lawyer for the drug lord says.
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The trial of drug lord El Chapo's suggests that President Trump's border wall may not do much to stop smuggling.
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" Mr. Newman said he heard from associates of Mr. Guzmán that the drug lord enjoyed the early seasons of "Narcos.
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Drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's face was also found on some of the 5,500 packets seized in January's bust.
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What it's about: A US Customs official (Bryan Cranston) discovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Peña Nieto vowed to find the reputed drug lord and, in 2016, he was captured by Mexican marines and federal police.
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The video is remarkable -- the troops are HEAVILY armed ... obviously expecting a major gun battle to take down the drug lord.
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For notorious drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán-Loera—El Chapo—that lawman is former Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Andrew Hogan.
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Before Gallardo, the marijuana smugglers of Mexico operated in distinct regions called "plazas," each led by an equally tough drug lord.
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And, although he dislikes being called the "world's most wanted drug lord," it is an accurate description of Guzman, Beith said.
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Drug lord Frank Lucas, who inspired the 2007 film American Gangster, played by Denzel Washington, has died at 88 years old.
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The show is about Pablo Escobar, and more than a few people seemed to confuse one infamous drug lord with another.
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The drug lord was recaptured in his native Sinaloa state early Friday after a shootout that killed six of his people.
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But security measures at the maximum-security prison have been tightened as the drug lord awaits extradition to the United States.
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The recapture of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is a story that seems to only get increasingly more bizarre.
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The U.S. government is seeking $14 billion from the drug lord as part of its prosecution of Guzman: http://bit.ly/2piHabw.
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We can rule out high-minded vigilantism; one day Mike will become the heavy for a drug lord named Gus Fring.
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Hours passed while helicopters combed the area for sight of the drug lord, flying above the exits to major storm drains.
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Authorities said the beloved church official was slain by Guzman's enemies, who thought they were taking aim at the drug lord.
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And on "20/20," Diane Sawyer interviews the actress linked to the capture of the drug lord known as El Chapo.
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Prominent inmates have included New York Mafia bosses, the fraudster Bernie Madoff and the Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Complicating matters, he had also effectively confessed to being a drug lord in an interview with Rolling Stone two years ago.
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Both are certifiable at this point: Wendy's getting cozy with a drug lord and Marty's trying to flip a federal agent.
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His father, the drug lord known as El Chapo, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, was captured twice thanks to Drug Enforcement Administration intelligence.
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Federal jurors deciding the fate of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán are expected to get to work this week.
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"El Chapo," the first co-production between Univision and Netflix, chronicles three decades in the life of the elusive drug lord.
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A federal judge on Friday rejected accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's request to dismiss his indictment, Reuters reported.
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" — TREVOR NOAH "Today a jury in New York convicted Mexican drug lord El Chapo, and now he's facing life in prison.
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No one is here except the generic drug lord (Rey Gallegos) who's in Santiago's sightlines because, well, drug lords are evil.
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Prosecutors want to know why billionaire drug lord El Chapo needs a public defender Prosecutors want to know why billionaire drug lord El Chapo needs a public defender Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is widely regarded as one of the world's richest drug lords, but he's currently enjoying a privilege generally reserved for America's poorest criminal defendants.
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"La Barbie" was believed to be the highest ranking American-born drug lord in a Mexican cartel's leadership structure until his arrest.
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"Scarface": Antoinette Montana becomes the biggest drug lord in the state of Florida, controlling all the Botox that is trafficked through Miami.
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Rolling Stone put a terrorist on their cover, promoted a fake rape scandal, and now is publishing straight up drug lord propaganda.
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El Chapo's got one question for NY prison officials -- can't a Mexican drug lord stay in shape while watching some quality TV?
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Not blindfolded In the article, Penn mused about the fact that he was not blindfolded while going to meet the drug lord.
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Soon after the president's election, he shared a drawing of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán holding Trump's detached head. pic.twitter.
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Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as "El Chapo," has been captured, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Friday on Twitter.
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Like the Dengue Fever drug lord, though, I would essentially be rooting for a problem that contributes to the suffering of millions.
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Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of notorious drug lord El Chapo will appear on the VH1 reality show "Cartel Crew" later this month.
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Bryan Cranston's portrayal of family man Walter White, who became a drug lord known as Heisenberg, was praised by fans and critics.
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The bust was the beginning of the end for the Venezuelan drug lord, who is wanted for extradition by the United States.
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CHICAGO — In this city, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord called El Chapo, is also known simply as Public Enemy No. 1.
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The series followed Cranston as Walter, a chemistry teacher turned drug lord, and Paul as Jesse, his student and fellow meth-maker.
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Among the accusations were that he had protected a Colombian drug lord and coordinated shipments to the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico.
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For the first two seasons of the show, he portrayed Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord and leader of the famed Medellín Cartel.
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In "Colombiana," Saldana's ultimate career goal as an assassin is to dispose of the drug lord who once ordered her parents' killing.
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What does the fall of El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord, mean to a local sheriff on the ground on the border?
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El Chapo -- the notorious drug lord who reigned over the world's most dangerous cartel -- is PISSED he can't properly pray in prison.
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Then you have the El Chapo situation where you have a traditional drug lord who's come up through a cartel in Mexico.
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VICE News visited Mexico's Golden Triangle, the stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel, just days before the extradition of drug lord El Chapo.
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But if the filmmakers are looking for any ideas, Cheetah could always be a drug lord in the middle of the Cold War.
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It all fell apart when McFarland claimed to have purchased a Bahamian island, Norman's Cay, formerly owned by Colombia drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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The man has a knack for extremes, which he demonstrated back in 2016 when he interviewed drug lord El Chapo for Rolling Stone.
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Despite the fact that the president was pretty clear that he's not interested in negotiating with Escobar, the drug lord isn't done trying.
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Camacho had worked with multiple cartels, as well as with the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has said.
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However, government officials have said in private the decision to extradite the drug lord is essentially a political call dependent on the president.
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Sean Penn's interview with El Chapo could be key to the prosecution's case against the drug lord, but only a select few parts.
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Penn wrote a story for the magazine about meeting the drug lord, and the magazine helped arrange for the making of the video.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been extradited to the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
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The chief money launderer for notorious drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera has been detained in southern Mexico, the country's Federal Police said Sunday.
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The drug lord had slipped out of the house into the city's sewage system through a hole tunnel reportedly built in a closet.
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For years the world's most wanted drug lord used tunnels to move tonnes of drugs into the United States and to evade capture.
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The video clips show the drug lord in a colorful shirt at a different hideout, musing about his contribution to the narcotics trade.
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TV on Monday that drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán ran one of the "most well-organized" criminal entities the DEA ever encountered.
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The cards were needed as props for the character of Solitaire, played by Seymour, a psychic who works for a menacing drug lord.
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Critics have slammed the magazine for giving the notorious drug lord a chance to read and approve the story before it was published.
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And when the government really wants to bring a drug lord in, they often end up having to rely on their target's help.
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El Chapo prosecution rests: Prosecutors at the trial of the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera ended their 10-week presentation on Monday.
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The government denies claims by Chapo's defense team that the drug lord is being held incommunicado without access to his lawyers or family.
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Some State Department officials are concerned about the idea of communicating with an alleged drug lord, per a source familiar with the situation.
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The most recent — and perhaps most renowned — prisoner of 210 South is Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo.
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Drug lord Pablo Escobar was reportedly very fond of the four hippopotamuses he kept at the illegal zoo on his luxurious Colombian estate.
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We're covering Mick Mulvaney's comments about quid pro quos, and the attempted arrest of a son of the Mexican drug lord El Chapo.
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To the contrary, a judge last year denied Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, from hugging his own wife.
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For instance, one tale I chased was the report of his pushing a drug lord out of a helicopter and into the sea.
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A statement from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said the transfer of the drug lord to its custody happened on Friday.
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Mexico scored a major triumph, recapturing the drug lord known as El Chapo six months after his brazen escape from a maximum security prison.
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Then, in 2015, Netflix took a bold step with "Narcos", a drama about the life and death of Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord.
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Except for the partly lurid, partly romantic appeal of reading about the thoughts of a drug lord, who really cares what El Chapo thinks?
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The film is based on Colombian journalist Virginia Vallejo's book Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar about her romantic relationship with Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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" The drug lord allegedly paid millions of dollars in bribes to corrupt "officials at every level of local, municipal, state, national, and foreign government.
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The probability that they would emerge unscathed from some shootout or murder plot by one drug lord or another always seemed so, so low.
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Read more: El Chapo's lawyers say he's super nice and won't try another escape Defending the accused drug lord will be a massive undertaking.
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Law enforcement sources tell us cops spotted Bernardo Saracino -- drug lord Manuel Diaz in "Sicario" -- around 3:30 AM swerving on an L.A. freeway.
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The infamous Mexican drug lord goes to court; Sweden's parliament votes to reject the proposed government for the first time in the nation's history.
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It's interesting to contrast him with Hector Salamanca, who is a drug lord, who watches calmly while a guy is shot in the head.
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Federal prosecutors have asked Judge Cogan to let the drug lord make scheduled court appearance on Friday by "video transmission" rather than in person.
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Trump supporters have been passing around this photo which supposedly shows billions of dollars seized from notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
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El Chapo -- the notorious drug lord once the subject of a worldwide manhunt -- is worried sick in his prison cell over -- READY FOR THIS?!
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A lot of ex-criminals were also interviewed, including former East Side drug lord Johnny Curry and ex-Best Friends hitman Nate "Boone" Craft.
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The online post, which called for Guzman to "traffic in love," sparked controversy in Mexico over the actress's perceived support of the drug lord.
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But hey, crazier things have happened ... like a Colombian drug lord running the international narcotics game for over two decades, or a fart app.
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He was accused of having links to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's notorious Medellin cartel and, in the process, amassing a multimillion-dollar fortune.
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Penn also addressed why he's met with controversial figures, such as former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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The Miami Beach mansion once owned by notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar has been reduced to rubble – and it's new owners couldn't be happier.
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The Mexican city of Culiacán descended into chaos on Thursday, after security forces briefly captured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's son Ovidio Guzman.
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But the character, unlike the actress, has a surprising sideline: she has become a bounty hunter, hot on the trail of a drug lord.
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I'm not really sure," says Malcolm Beith, author of "The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord.
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With a drug dealer/maker and former student named Jesse Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul), Walter became a key drug lord known as Heisenberg.
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The action follows a group of five retired Special Forces operatives who reunite to pull off a heist on a South American drug lord.
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The 60-year-old drug lord was clean-shaven, and it appeared as though he'd lost weight since his last court date, in June.
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Ciccione traveled to Bogota in December 2010 to meet with Jose Bayron Piedrahita, an indicted drug lord with the Cali cartel, U.S. prosecutors said.
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Just last month, a botched military raid to capture the son of the drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán killed at least eight people.
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Cartel leaders like El Chapo regularly make Forbes Billionaire Drug Lord list, despite the illegality of their operations and law enforcement's focus on them.
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We also have an update from the trial of the drug lord El Chapo, and contested election results in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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A few years later, he befriended a top aide to the drug lord Pablo Escobar who had moved into his building in Medellín, Colombia.
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He says that Del Castillo and Chapo began corresponding after she published an open letter that some understood as sympathetic to the drug lord.
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Wednesday January 13: Leaked mobile phone messages between Chapo and Kate del Castillo suggest the drug lord was developing an infatuation with the actress.
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Director Axel Uriegas says that the timing is coincidental and that nobody associated with the drug lord had anything to do with the movie.
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His lawyers are seeking to prove that another drug lord, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, actually ran the cartel and used Guzman as a scapegoat.
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In Sinaloa, the former turf of notorious, imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, homicides in 2017 soared 39% over last year to 1,332.
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She's also one of two central figures in this season's strongest, most emotional story: Mimi Webb Miller's real romance with drug lord Pablo Acosta.
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This Spanish-language series about the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera (Marco de la O), known as El Chapo, returns for Season 2.
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How El Chapo escaped in a sewer, naked with his mistress: When troops are at the door, a drug lord does what he must.
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BROOKLYN, New York — Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman hasn't been photographed or recorded since he was extradited to the U.S. in 2017.
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BROOKLYN — It only took five weeks, but jurors in the trial of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán finally got hear the infamous drug lord speak.
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Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, who played infamous Colombian drug lord for the new Lifetime movie Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story, which aired Jan.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday postponed the trial of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman by two months, to Nov.
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Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, started out in business not long after turning 6, selling oranges and soft drinks.
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I am not blaming the inarguably talented White, who oversaw the vibrant Off Broadway sleeper hit "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord," which is still running.
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The Mexican drug lord has been locked up in New York City's Metropolitan Correctional Center since January and was reportedly not happy with his conditions.
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The drug lord allegedly lived on the same street as, and received protection from, Ahmed Wali Karzai — the half-brother of then-president Hamid Karzai.
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BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian police have re-arrested a former hit man for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar as part of an investigation into extortion.
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And it's uncertain if Penn knew where El Chapo was, since he described a long, winding guided trip to get to the Mexican drug lord.
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He's a poor kid who had some family connections in the drug trade, no options, no real education ... (and) becomes a big-time drug lord.
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One time in Medellin, I got my hair cut by a woman who swore that Pablo Escobar, the notorious Colombian drug lord, was still alive.
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The Mexican drug lord, 60, was arrested on 17 counts, including numerous murders and kidnappings while we allegedly oversaw the multibillion-dollar international Sinaloa cartel.
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According to The New York Times, Penn was able to meet with Guzman because the drug lord wanted to make a movie about his life.
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They pursued the drug lord through the northern city's drains and caught him after a car chase through the outskirts, Attorney General Arely Gomez said.
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When Del Castillo departs from the conversation the lawyer and his boss discuss getting her a special cellphone for her communications with the drug lord.
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The warmth between the drug lord and the actress has surprised even Mexicans inured to the often stranger-than-fiction events of the drug war.
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Penn met and conducted the interview with Guzman last fall while the drug lord was on the run following his elaborate prison escape in July.
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A close associated of Guzman's testified late last year that the drug lord authorizied a $100 million bribe for former Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
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It's clear from her response ... Ali hasn't given up hope on finding the killers, and she thinks there's a chance the drug lord was involved.
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In 2010, Univision reported that the father of her daughter was a Mexican drug lord, José Gerardo Álvarez, known as "El Indio" and now incarcerated.
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CreditCreditDaniele Volpe for The New York Times TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — The number of murders the Honduran drug lord admitted to orchestrating over 10 years was stunning.
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Blood and money have dominated the first month of testimony at the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo.
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Local sources said in January that the drug lord himself had visited his mother several times during the six months he was on the run.
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Cummins wrote a novel about the plight of a Mexican immigrant woman, who has a romantic relationship with a drug lord her journalist husband covers.
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At times the inmates have included accused terrorists, prominent white-collar criminals and organized crime figures like the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo.
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Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán could fight off extradition requests from the United States for years, a high government official said on Monday.
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The Peruvian media has continually called Caracol the new "El Chapo" — referring to Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán who was rearrested in January.
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Chapo Guzman, the Mexican drug lord and one of the most famous criminals in the world, was recaptured on Friday after months on the run.
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The only interview the drug lord is believed to have given in decades was brokered with the help of the Mexican television star Kate del Castillo.
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Ex–Special Forces guys (Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal) plan to rob a drug lord, but then everything goes wrong.
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But the Gulf Cartel is perhaps most infamous for drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, whose reign turned Tamaulipas into arguably the most dangerous state in Mexico.
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Chin jutting out, eyes trained on the camera, the handsome youth bore a strong resemblance to his infamous father, jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Former US attorney Robert Capers brought cases against drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and nearly 30 FIFA officials before he left Brooklyn's federal prosecutor's office.
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It's still unclear whether Penn, 55, who interviewed Guzmén for a Rolling Stone article, might be subject to prosecution for his dealings with the drug lord.
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His continued evasion of the law and the growth of the Sinaloa Cartel led Guzman to be considered the most powerful drug lord in the world.
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When Enrique Peña Nieto announced the arrest of drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán a week ago on Twitter, he also used the phrase Mission Accomplished.
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Alleged drug lord 'La Barbie' pleads guilty to U.S. charges Drug smuggling began through the tunnel after February 28, authorities said, citing intercepted calls and surveillance.
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Tony Hernandez even promised Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman protection for his shipments in exchange for funding his brother's presidential campaign, according to Ardon.
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They told me outlandish tales about the baby-faced, teenage drug lord who allegedly ran Motown's inner-city drug trade in the mid-to-late 1980s.
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Construction workers demolishing a Miami mansion that once belonged to notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar have found a giant safe hidden in the building's foundation.
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In 2014, following Guzman's arrest, del Castillo and the drug lord began exchanging handwritten notes and BBM messages, discussing a film project about the latter's life.
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The Mexican drug lord, 59, was arrested on 17 counts including numerous murders and kidnappings during his time allegedly overseeing the multibillion-dollar international Sinaloa cartel.
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For everyone else, shopping around Miami is more about looking like you earn a drug lord-sized payout while shopping on a dime bag dealer budget.
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Raul Ruiz's (D-Calif.)to donate his campaign donations from Sean Penn to an addiction clinic in light of Penn's controversial interview with a drug lord.
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Authorities called him the world's most wanted drug lord, but every time they tried to nab him, Guzman found a way to slip out of sight.
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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is perhaps the most well known drug lord of our time, and his current trial has been making headlines across the globe.
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Guzman's lawyers say he was set up as a "fall guy" by Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a powerful drug lord from Sinaloa who remains at large.
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The paper claimed that Ramírez' is being investigated over links to Miguel Arévalo Ramírez, an alleged drug lord and the subject of a related DEA probe.
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The vanity project for the drug lord, said to be either 1003 or 58 years old, appears to have been the key to his latest downfall.
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The vanity project for the drug lord, said to be either 62 or 58 years old, appears to have been the key to his latest downfall.
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Her description of their relationship destroyed the image of Chapo as the all-powerful drug lord, instead casting him as a petty villain in a telenovela.
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The drug lord escaped from the facility through a mile-long tunnel on July 11, 2015, and was returned there after he was recaptured in January.
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At this early stage of his criminal prosecution, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, does not appear in court that often.
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Prosecutors at the trial of the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera spent more than 10 weeks painting the kingpin as the most despicable sort of criminal.
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Sending Guzmán to the United States would help allay fears the drug lord could use his massive fortune to bribe prison officials and escape yet again.
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Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, a Colombian drug lord known as Chupeta, or Lollipop, with a ghoulish face from multiple plastic surgeries, made an especially strong impression.
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Suspicion of government collusion with the cartels only grew after notorious drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera escaped from prison a second time last July.
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Why it's a good alternative: "Narcos" is one of Netflix's most popular shows, and the infamous drug lord is now spilling over to your local multiplex.
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" Here is what you need to know about the secret mountaintop meeting between Sean Penn and the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as "El Chapo.
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"Some people have been very aggressive, saying 'You guys are supporting the drug lord, you're in a team with them, you're making money for them,'" Kivachook said.
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Extradition proceedings for the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera that could send him to an American court for the first time are underway in Mexico City.
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Marroquin said Escobar's phone call before his death was one to say goodbye and was tracked by police because the drug lord wanted them to track it.
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So observers were understandably surprised when, through his attorney, reputed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman recently expressed a desire to be extradited to the United States.
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Roberto Escobar, brother of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, reportedly has asked the Los Gatos-based streaming service for an advance copy of Season 2 of Narcos.
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Paul's return is exciting, but please don't celebrate the new project by throwing pizzas onto anyone's roof, even if you suspect they are a secret drug lord.
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The Batman Returns actress, 59, said she learned a lot from acting opposite Pacino, 77, who played her drug lord onscreen husband in the 1983 crime classic.
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If the drug lord decides to keep the court-appointed lawyers, it could lead to some awkward moments in the courtroom if his case goes to trial.
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Gomez also had to contend with the July 2015 escape from a maximum security prison of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman before his recapture this January.
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Update: After nearly six months as a fugitive, drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera is back in police custody, according to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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A lawyer for the drug lord, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who escaped from prison twice in Mexico, said two appeals filed this week could take years to resolve.
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Mexico's federal court authority says a judge has ruled that drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán can be extradited to the United States, according to multiple reports.
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Journalists and film-industry types speculate on how the meeting between the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo and the actor Sean Penn actually went down.
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Guzman's lawyers have said they would prove their client was framed by another drug lord, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, and the government officials he had allegedly bribed.
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The documents say that his brother, Feraz, went into business with Venezuela's most notorious drug lord, Walid Makled, and held nearly $45 million in Swiss bank accounts.
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Mr. El Aissami had links to the drug lord, too, the documents say, noting that he issued large government contracts to a company tied to Mr. Makled.
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One of the sources of the information was the drug lord, Mr. Makled, who described Mr. El Aissami's involvement in the scheme, according to the intelligence memo.
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The I.T. specialist, Christian Rodriguez, had recently developed an extraordinary product: an encrypted communications system for Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo.
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In October, officials there said they had foiled a plot to deploy a car bomb packed with 163 pounds of explosives to free a jailed drug lord.
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It pits a gang of burly American veterans (played by Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac and a few others) against a drug lord (Rey Gallegos) and his cronies.
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The drug lord was released from jail on October 3, 2014, thanks to a reduction of his sentence that was made in the name of addressing overcrowding.
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The department also said Mr. El Aissami had protected accused drug traffickers, including the Venezuelan drug lord Walid Makled García and the Colombian kingpin Daniel Barrera Barrera.
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"The Thin Place," directed by Les Waters, joins Alexis Scheer's "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" — and maybe, if you squint, "A Christmas Carol" — in putting spiritualism onstage.
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" Mr. Elba grew up in London and broke into the American market with his starring role as the Baltimore drug lord Stringer Bell on HBO's "The Wire.
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Through those two stories — one real, one fake — del Castillo may have found kinship with the man who's been called the most powerful drug lord in history.
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Ever since they took the case last year, lawyers for Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, have mounted a largely procedural defense.
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And it's not about an upper-middle-class girl navigating her way through the American penal system, or the rise and fall of a Columbian drug lord.
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Known as "El Mencho," Oseguera has become Mexico's most-wanted drug lord after Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was extradited for trial to the United States last year.
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Sean Penn revealed in Rolling Stone that the drug lord sent the actress flowers and the two began a correspondence through a web of encrypted Blackberry messages.
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The juror who spoke with VICE News said they were being honest about not knowing much about Chapo beyond his alleged status as a Mexican drug lord.
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It's a small collection of one-story houses, congregated around the huge and brightly colored mansion that the drug lord built for his mother once his fortune grew.
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Related: Mexican Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Escapes Prison Through Elaborate Tunnel With Motorcycle There were several navy operations in the area reported during Chapo's months on the run.
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Mexican actress Kate del Castillo says she had sex with Sean Penn after they secretly met with international drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman in Mexico in 2015.
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After El Chapo was captured and Penn's interview with the drug lord ran in Rolling Stone magazine, del Castillo told the media she was misled by Penn's intentions.
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MEXICO CITY — Stripped to his undershirt and covered in filth, the world's most notorious drug lord dragged himself out of the sewers and into the middle of traffic.
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Perhaps that's why Marroquin stayed silent for two decades after the 21980 death of Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug lord who built a multibillion-dollar empire dealing cocaine.
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HAPPENING LATER A kingpin's fate awaits Today could be the last day the public -- and even some of his relatives -- see convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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But Lynch said the U.S. is very interested in bringing Guzman back to the U.S. to face the charges that multiple jurisdictions have filed against the drug lord.
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According to federal prosecutors, Tony pledged to help Rivera get government agencies to pay money owed to Rivera's front-companies, entities the drug lord used to launder money.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The chief bodyguard to the eldest son of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was killed in the northern coastal state of Sinaloa.
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REUTERS/Stringer The Chapo and the olive branchThe extradition of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman came on the eve of Donald Trump's swearing-in as president.
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The Mexican government is conducting an investigation targeting Sean Penn and a Mexican actress for secretly meeting with and interviewing drug lord El Chapo ... according to ABC news.
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The team decided to mention the island was once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar, something the Bahamian authorities specifically asked them not to do in their promotion.
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" He said: "The drug war will be sustained and relentless until the last drug lord, the last financier, and the last pusher have surrendered or put behind bars.
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Fin, a drug lord, sends this African-American foursome from Los Angeles to Wisconsin, where they're instructed to kill a witness before he can testify against the operation.
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The 30,000-square-foot property, which was once the residence of drug lord Pablo Escobar, was put up for sale by ONE Sotheby's International Realty in March 2019.
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Mexican prisons received worldwide attention in July, when Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most notorious criminal and drug lord, escaped from the federal maximum security El Altiplano prison.
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Penn's interview with the drug lord was "essential" for his capture, Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez Gonzalez said in a radio interview Monday with journalist Joaquin Lopez-Doriga.
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Last year, he said, he went to Colombia to visit the estate of Pablo Escobar, the drug lord who died in a shootout with Colombian authorities in 1993.
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And a sidelight on the wall proposal: Details disclosed at the trial of the drug lord known as El Chapo suggests it wouldn't have inconvenienced him very much.
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A cleaning company owned by the 30-something alleged drug lord also had contracts worth 149 million Sols (roughly $43 million dollars) to service the national prosecutors' offices.
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The novel's protagonist, Cari Mora, is a Colombian refugee who works as the caretaker of a Miami Beach mansion that once belonged to the drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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The big picture: As Swan first reported, the WSJ said alleged drug lord and top Maduro aide Diosdado Cabello has been playing a key role in the talks.
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Essentially a narcothriller — it's about a Mexican woman and her son fleeing to the border to escape a murderous drug lord — the book is already a huge hit.
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New York (CNN)The defense of Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán began Tuesday and was over in minutes, with a single FBI agent taking the stand.
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Mr. Velásquez joined Mr. Escobar when the drug lord agreed in 1991 to be held in a resortlike prison, La Catedral, which he had his own engineers design.
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It has been assumed for months that the prosecution of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, would be an undertaking of major proportions.
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Better Call Saul Episode-opening images don't get more promising than this: the sight of Don Eladio, the backslapping Mexican drug lord, diving blissfully into his backyard pool.
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He was widely understood to be the most powerful drug lord in Mexico, if not the world, and was considered responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.
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The drama followed Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher played by Bryan Cranston who becomes an Albuquerque, N.M., drug lord when he can't afford his cancer treatments.
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The drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, known as the Lord of the Skies, famously died under a surgeon's knife, and several witnesses said they went through extensive operations.
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LOS MOCHIS, Mexico — The capture of the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera stunned the world and earned President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico a much-needed round of applause.
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International gangs have long been drawn to the frontier: Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord, is said to have owned a cargo plane that now sits outside Tabatinga's zoo.
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" Zeta-Jones recently starred as real-life actress Olivia de Havilland in "Feud" as well as a drug lord in the TV movie "Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story.
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That the dude who played Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High was able to track down a drug lord who's eluded the governments of two countries is astounding.
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The video clips show the drug lord in a colorful shirt and black cap at a different hideout, musing about his contribution to the narcotics trade and U.S. consumption.
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Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was recaptured on Friday, six months after he escaped from maximum-security prison through a mile-long tunnel beginning inside his cell.
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So when he offered Mr. Brolin the role of an undercover C.I.A. officer hunting a Mexican drug lord in "Sicario," he wasn't willing to take no for an answer.
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FOR TEN weeks the trial in New York of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo", has revealed sordid tales of graft, girls and gore.
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It'd been eight years since Smash was sucked into the foster care system and the friends separated, but the 20-year-old drug lord recognized his middle-school pal.
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But if they are in touch with a drug lord and in order to catch them, you need to intercept them, that's a decision an intelligence agency should get.
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Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has been extradited to the United States, Mexico's government said Thursday evening, less than a day before Donald Trump's presidential inauguration.
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Related: Latina Photo Collective Sets Its Own Beauty Ideals with an Original Calendar Mexican Artist Spends 40 Years Drawing Infinity Digital Still Lifes Chronicle a Modern Day Drug Lord
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And we know that the fictional Piper had her sentence increased by lying in court about whether she'd met the drug lord who Alex (Laura Prepon) was working for.
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Still, many Mexicans wholly embrace sardonic humor to respond to scandals, whether corruption in the president's office or the escape of the notorious drug lord Joaquín (El Chapo) Guzmán.
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Diane Sawyer interviews Kate del Castillo, the actress at the center of the controversy surrounding the arrest of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo.
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The recapture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, in Mexico earlier this month has given the world's most infamous drug lord a healthy dose of attention.
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They have sketched courtroom characters ranging from John Gotti and the Mexican drug lord El Chapo to Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon in 1980, and many others.
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"Breaking Bad" was deliberate too, yet at the end of four years, it had established Walter as the drug lord Heisenberg and had built momentum for one last season.
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The festival's website identified its location as Fyre Cay, a fictional place that was described as a private island that had once belonged to the drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman said in court on Monday that he will not testify in his own defense at his U.S. trial.
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A resident of Culiacan, Sinaloa, wears a Chapo T-shirt during a demonstration called to support the drug lord in the days after his July 2015 prison tunnel escape.
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The 252-year-old who married Mexico's most notorious drug lord as a teenager discusses their courtship and the weeks of testimony depicting her husband as a cruel killer.
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Rolling Stone publishes an extensive article written by Hollywood actor Sean Penn about a seven-hour encounter he had with Chapo while the drug lord was on the run.
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Jurors were rapt as the Colombian drug lord, who underwent extensive plastic surgery to alter his appearance when he was a fugitive, described his rise through the cartel ranks.
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Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has been extradited to the United States, Mexico's government said Thursday evening, less than a day before Donald Trump's presidential inauguration.
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A source inside the Security Commission confirmed to VICE News that the drug lord was moved with the intention of streamlining procedures to deliver him to the US authorities.
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Forget "Swish" and "Waves" ... Kanye West just revealed the new title of his album, and it appears to be a shout out to the biggest drug lord in history.
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Sean Penn has no regrets about how his meeting with El Chapo went down -- even though there's allegedly evidence law enforcement tailed him to find the fugitive drug lord.
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The U.S. wants $500 million in drug money from a Mexican drug lord betrayed by El Chapo The U.S. wants $500 million in drug money from a Mexican drug lord betrayed by El Chapo Everybody knows Mexican drug lords are filthy rich, but the recent sentencing of a leader of the notorious Beltrán-Leyva cartel suggests the illicit business is even more lucrative than imagined — and the U.S. government wants a piece of the action.
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Read more: Photos show the chaos and aftermath of a Mexican battle over drug lord 'El Chapo's' sonCartel gunmen surrounded about 35 police and national guards on Thursday in the capital of Sinaloa state and made them free Ovidio Guzman, one of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's dozen or so children, after his brief detention set off widespread gun battles and a jailbreak of at least 20 prisoners that stunned the country.
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MEXICO CITY – Sinaloa cartel drug lord Damaso Lopez was extradited Friday from the border city of Ciudad Juarez to the United States, Mexico&aposs federal attorney general&aposs office said.
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Lawyers for Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman say the conditions of solitary confinement are taking a toll on the alleged Mexican drug lord as he awaits trial on drug trafficking charges.
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Of particular interest to investigators could be Penn's revelations that the drug lord discussed "a host of corrupt major corporations" that helped Guzman launder money from his vast criminal enterprise.
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She had begun a 14-hour journey to meet one of her fans, the world's most notorious drug lord, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, at his mountain hide-out in northwestern Mexico.
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October marks three years since Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, accompanied by actor Sean Penn, secretly met with international drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán at his lair in Mexico.
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Alex Cifuentes, a close associate of the accused Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (right) is seen testifying in this courtroom sketch in Brooklyn's federal court in New York.
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The deck, obtained by PEOPLE, has a slide titled "Land Ownership," which explains how McFarland acquired the island in the Bahamas formerly owned by the late drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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The show, centered around Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel, was well-received by critics, and was renewed for a second season before its first had ended.
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he will help the sisters of the drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán visit their brother, who is incarcerated in the United States.
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Despite the movement in Mexico, it still could be months — if not years — before the drug lord is brought to the U.S., due to quirks in the Mexican legal system.
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Poachers Of course, prospective buyers and ivory kingpins don't actually go into the bush in Niassa to shoot the elephants -- much like a drug lord wouldn't harvest his own cocaine.
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If you were granted access to an alleged drug lord while he was on the run from the law, would you, in your final copy, write about your gastrointestinal issues?
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The theater also announced two productions in its Off Broadway spaces: Will Eno's "The Underlying Chris" and Alexis Scheer's "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord," a coproduction with the WP Theater.
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According to a secret dossier compiled by Venezuelan agents, Mr. El Aissami and his family helped sneak Hezbollah militants into the country and went into business with a drug lord.
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López Obrador said he went to the area to supervise the construction of a road, but nonetheless defended his decision to meet the mother of Mexico's most notorious drug lord.
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"I understand that the intention of El Chapo's trial is to judge the big Mexican drug lord," said Bianca Salces, a 45-year-old actress and comedian from Mexico City.
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She is one of the many children of the famous drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who is currently serving a life sentence in the American supermax prison ADX Florence.
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MEXICO CITY — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico on Friday defended the country's security forces for capturing — and then releasing — a son of the infamous drug lord El Chapo.
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The historical Netflix drama "Narcos" could easily have concluded after its riveting second season, which ended with the death of Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug lord, in a rooftop shootout.
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Nobody expected criminal organizations would react the way they did: As one after another drug lord was hunted down, their lieutenants would fight amongst themselves for power within the cartels.
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He has assumed responsibility for the Culiacán operation that failed to capture the son of the drug lord El Chapo, and stressed the importance of rectifying and adjusting security strategy.
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In this episode, Teresa travels to Bolivia to prove her loyalty to El Santo, a drug lord who operates a multinational operation out of the infamous San Pedro Prison there.
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Now authorities in the U.S. are taking precautions to keep witnesses who plan to testify against the powerful drug lord alive long enough to appear at his trial in April.
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Judge Brian Cogan set a tentative trial date for the accused drug lord of April 16, 2018, and said the proceedings would likely last at least two or three months.
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But independent experts who spoke with VICE News about Chapo's case said it's entirely plausible that the NSA was involved in the hunt for the world's most wanted drug lord.
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Known as "El Mencho," Oseguera has risen to become Mexico's most wanted drug lord after Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was extradited to the United States last year to face trial.
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Triple Frontier, an action thriller, involves a group of Special Forces veterans who decide to rob a South American drug lord and equally split the profits to eliminate their financial woes.
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An anesthesiologist and friend to Richard Sackler — the billionaire scion behind OxyContin-creator Purdue Pharma — sent an email in 2002 warning that he might be starting to resemble a drug lord.
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BROOKLYN, New York — Before she found herself fleeing through a sewer with a naked drug lord, Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez was a rising political star in her home state of Sinaloa.
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He also said the drug lord had complained of high blood pressure, with systolic pressure up to 190, which was causing headaches, as well as pain in his eyes and ears.
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In the 1980s the drug lord brought perhaps a half-dozen hippos to join the rhinos, giraffes, zebras and camels at his zoo at Hacienda Nápoles, his mansion east of Medellín.
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With an estimated 2,22015 active members, the Urabeños — also known as Clan Úsaga, after the drug lord — also have a nationwide presence and have fought bloody turf wars with other cartels.
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The news that Sean Penn secretly met with fugitive drug lord Joaquén "El Chapo" Guzmén Loera for an interview last year was perhaps met with less backlash than the actual interview.
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Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico (CNN)Mexico will begin proceedings for the extradition of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States, the office of Mexico's attorney general said Saturday.
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His penchant for expensive polo jerseys created a fashion trend known as the "Narco Polo," and a Hollywood film about his life, dubbed "American Drug Lord," is already in the works.
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His arrest follows that of two other SBB officials this month on suspicion of intimidating a witness in the high-profile trial in Kosovo of accused Balkan drug lord Naser Kelmendi.
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Looking back, it's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when it became clear that jury selection in the trial of the world's most notorious drug lord had turned into a circus.
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The drug lord was able to briefly escape, but was captured by federal police in a stolen car on the outskirts of Los Mochis along with one of his alleged lieutenants.
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Also on Tuesday, Netflix and Univision announced that they would co-produce a new "El Chapo" drama series, based on the life story of the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzmán.
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Earlier this month, members of the Sinaloa drug cartel terrorized the Mexican city of Culiacán in response to the arrest of the son of infamous drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán.
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The decaying facility is an added headache for an agency marred by corruption and mismanagement, underscored by the escape from prison of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in July 2015.
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During a trip to perform at a festival in Medellin, the celebrity posted pictures to his Instagram account of him apparently paying tribute to the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Washington (CNN)US law enforcement officials announced a $20 million reward Thursday for the newest member of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero.
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Netflix has been in an ongoing trademark dispute with the family of Pablo Escobar, the deceased Colombian drug lord depicted in the streaming service's show "Narcos," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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To prove his value as an informer, the convicted drug lord Leroy (Nicky) Barnes snitched to prosecutors about a drug deal, which resulted in the conviction of Nicholas Sperling in 1983.
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Attempted arrest of El Chapo's son: Gun battles broke out in the Mexican city of Culiacán after soldiers arrested and then released a son of the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera.
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Heavily armed cartel fighters surrounded security forces and made them free one of drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's sons, whose brief apprehension triggered intense gunbattles across the city of Culiacan.
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While the drug lord Joaquin Guzman, known as El Chapo, became infamous for using them, Flaco says they are as old as the border itself and began as natural underground rivers.
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Rolling Stone magazine published an article the following day by Penn, based on a secret meeting with Guzman and attended by del Castillo while the drug lord was on the run.
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And it contributed to the capture of Carlos Arnoldo Lobo, a Honduran cartel leader, and to the second capture of Joaquín Guzmán, the Mexican drug lord better known as El Chapo.
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From the drug lord who pulled off an impossible escape to an extraterrestrial ocean containing clues to alien life, here are the baffling mysteries the world will try to solve this year.
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Kannu's mother Sargam (Anjali Patil) catches the eye of the local drug lord (Makarand Deshpande) but she is in love with Pappu, a book-seller from the slum, who returns her affections.
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The US government has underlined the high priority it still gives to veteran drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero by including his common-law wife among alleged traffickers listed within the Kingpin Act.
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Cover image: Mexico's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted as he arrives at Long Island MacArthur airport in New York, U.S., January 19, 2017, after his extradition from Mexico.
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Transferring Mr. Guzmán to the United States would be an about-face for the government, which has in the past resisted efforts to extradite the drug lord as a matter of sovereignty.
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It doesn't hold back from its unconventional premise: Five manicurists run a salon in the trashy city of Palmetto, Florida, that's actually a front to launder money for the local drug lord.
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The drug lord initially claimed he had no money for attorneys, and then the issue of whether private lawyers could be paid without the government seizing the money further complicated the situation.
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And, if the show's new poster and—spoiler alert—real-life history are any indication, things might not be looking very good for the drug lord by the end of this season.
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In Yedioth Ahronoth, NSO Group claimed to have helped stop "several very big terror attacks in Europe," and have a crucial role in bringing down Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
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According to the Rolling Stone story, Penn's interview with the drug lord was brokered by Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo, who Penn wrote was helping Guzman bring his biopic dreams to fruition.
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Washington (CNN)Carly Fiorina said Friday that Hillary Clinton is "more qualified for the Big House" than the White House and compared her to the recently captured Mexican drug lord El Chapo.
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The day after he was apprehended, Rolling Stone magazine published an article by Penn, based on his and del Castillo's secret meeting with Guzman while the drug lord was on the run.
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Sending Guzman to the United States would help allay fears the drug lord could use his massive fortune to bribe prison officials and escape from a Mexican maximum security jail yet again.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday welcomed the conviction of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, citing his case amid the administration's push for border security funding.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The capture of most-wanted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was the result of a months-long criminal and intelligence investigation, Mexican President Enrique Nieto said on Friday.
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Related: Fugitive Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero pleads for a 'second chance' Don Neto's legacy is evident in the various cartels that spawned out of the wreckage of the Guadalajara cartel.
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Related: This Artist Is Turning Roadkill into Still Lifes Digital Still Lifes Chronicle a Modern Day Drug Lord A Still Life Explodes with Color in Tourist's "To Have You Back" Music Video
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Viewers of the Netflix series "Narcos" will recognize Envigado as the hometown of the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar, who was killed in a shootout with police officers and soldiers in 1993.
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On Thursday, after Mr. Martínez was excused, the jury got a glimpse into Mr. Guzmán's skills as a smuggler from his chief cocaine supplier, the Colombian drug lord Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía.
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Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was recaptured exactly a week ago, almost six months after he escaped from a maximum-security prison through a mile-long tunnel from his cell.
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For more than a year now, an only-in-New York transportation nightmare has been caused by the case of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord best known as El Chapo.
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The plot is set into motion when a close friend of President Bennett (Donald Moffat) is murdered by a drug lord, Ernesto Escobedo (Miguel Sandoval, bearing a strong resemblance to Pablo Escobar).
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The other camp is believed to maintain ties with the more established Sinaloa cartel that has shown signs of weakening since the January recapture of fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán.
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Diosdado Cabello, an alleged drug lord with substantial power inside the Venezuelan political and military elite, has been communicating through emissaries with National Security Council official Mauricio Claver-Carone, these sources said.
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Under what he termed the "1-for-7" deal, the US would have freed a captive Afghan drug lord named Haji Bashir Noorzai for the entire group of American and Canadian hostages.
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He stood with it in front of the former home of Pablo Escobar, the notorious drug lord whose cocaine empire once placed him on lists of the world's richest and most wanted.
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El Chapo's daughter tied the knot with the nephew of another Mexican drug lord in a lavish ceremony that came complete with armored luxury cars, a firework show, and yellow police tape.
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Fans might not be as familiar with the names of Narcos: Mexico's players, but they are closely tied to one major drug lord who has become a household name in recent years.
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That's where you can wait for the arrival of the dangerously departed narco-terrorist Pablo Escobar, the title character of Alexis Scheer's "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord," in a cozy Miami treehouse.
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In the article, Mr. Londoño recounted how, just hours after interviewing Mr. Veiga in his jail cell, the drug lord stabbed a woman visiting him in his cell 17 times, killing her.
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A drug lord convicted of killing a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent and a Mexican government pilot in 1985 will have to pay $1 million in compensation, Associated Press reported Friday.
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They ranged from the exposure of major human rights abuses to drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's escape from maximum-security prison, and allegations of conflict of interest involving the presidential family.
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Even though jurors in the trial of the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera have spent nearly three months in the courtroom, they seem to be in no rush to go home.
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Lawyers for the drug lord want the judge to allow for a neuropsychological evaluation at the Metropolitan Correctional Facility because in just the last month he can't remember people, places and events.
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When a federal judge in Brooklyn decided this week to postpone the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, he gave no reason for the delay.
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In a new book by true crime author Ron Chepesiuk titled Crazy Charlie: Revolutionary or Neo-Nazi, the life and times of the Nazi-sympathizing drug lord cartel are explored in depth.
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Dotted with green valleys and hot springs, it had long been used by a drug lord called Arturo Beltrán Leyva, alias "the Beard," to fly in cocaine from Colombia before taking it north.
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The Koopa King and Drug Lord Bowser was actually just small pennies compared to the real boss in charge: Princess Peach, who runs the drug operation at the heart of the Mushroom Kingdom.
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In April 2017, hundreds of millennials descended on the Bahamas for what they were promised would be a luxury Coachella held on a private island once owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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He said he would not stop "until the last drug pusher and the last drug lord are..." at which point he drew his finger across his neck in a dramatic execution-style gesture.
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The lone defense witness was an FBI agent who was questioned about how he took notes during an interview with a Colombian drug lord who testified against El Chapo earlier in the trial.
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Officials did not arrive at the cell to look for the missing drug lord until about half an hour later in a clear indication of the level of corruption behind the dramatic jailbreak.
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Glenn's comments came a week after Sinaloa Cartel gunmen forced outmatched Mexican security forces to release one of the sons of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who had briefly been detained.
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In the process, the crafty drug lord went from being a Robin Hood for the people of his home state, Sinaloa, to a folk hero — or antihero — for a broad swath of Mexicans.
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With fentanyls, in contrast, a drug lord has to pay only one or two chemists—and she gets a much smaller and easier-to-hide product that only needs to be transported once.
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Rodrigo Vallejo — the son of Fausto Vallejo, former governor of the troubled southern state of Michoacán — was arrested in 2014 after a video emerged of him personally meeting with drug lord La Tuta.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joaquin Guzman, the convicted Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, has escaped twice from maximum-security prisons in Mexico, once by digging a mile-long tunnel from his cell.
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Mexican officials have said they're doing everything they can to make sure Guzman doesn't escape again and that the drug lord eventually will be extradited to the United States to face charges there.
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Mexican law enforcement captured the world's most notorious drug lord last week after nearly six months on the run, removing Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman from his hideout on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
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Last month, in the northwestern city of Culiacán, Mexican security forces found themselves quickly outnumbered and outgunned when they tried to arrest the son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the jailed drug lord.
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"We will not stop until the last drug lord, the last financier and the last pusher have surrendered or been put behind bars or below the ground, if they so wish," he said.
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Their meeting in a jungle hideout was the first interview anyone scored with the fugitive drug lord, and Penn said he had hoped it would spur a broader discussion on the drug war.
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You need only watch Escobar: Paradise Lost, about notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar, who made billions smugging cocaine into the USA, to get a sense of how unhinged parts of the country became.
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Apparently the prince of darkness is way more into 7th Heaven than he is into the more obviously evil-seeming Breaking Bad, in which a Southwestern high school teacher becomes a drug lord.
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After working for months with two public defenders, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, was in the final stages of hiring a crew of private lawyers in August.
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With the release of the business correspondence between Del Castillo and Granados, Mexico's prosecutor's office could place charges against the actress if investigations show she had a business relationship with the drug lord.
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Yet in Mexico, the claim — made on Tuesday in a Brooklyn courtroom by a former ally of the drug lord, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo — was met with barely a shrug.
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Even though she testified to all of this as a prosecution witness, Ms. Sánchez still appeared to be in love with the drug lord — at one point erupting into tears on the stand.
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U.S. prosecutors in 2012 said that in February 2008, Mexican authorities told the CEO of HSBC's Mexico unit that a local drug lord referred to the bank as the "place to launder money".
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In addition to Lichtman, Guzman's lawyers at the trial include Eduardo Balarezo and William Purpura, who previously defended Mexican drug lord Alfredo Beltran Leyva, once a partner and later a rival of Guzman.
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Ortega is one of a handful of prosecutors who have ever interrogated the drug lord and, now that Guzmán is again behind bars after his January capture, is now seeking to interrogate him again.
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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán woke up this morning for the fifth time since his recapture last Friday in the maximum-security Altiplano prison — the same prison the drug lord escaped from in July 2015.
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One American veteran of the drug wars recalls how a drug lord was taken down after hiring 50 prostitutes for a Christmas party, not realising that some were in the pay of American spooks.
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JOAQUÍN GUZMÁN LOERA is a Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo ("Shorty") whose long and bloody reign as boss of the Sinaloa gang has led to thousands of deaths in his home country.
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LOS ANGELES - As Hollywood's elite gathered for Sunday's Golden Globe awards, one news topic took center stage on the red carpet — actor Sean Penn's clandestine meeting with drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman last October.
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Jesus Alfredo Guzman, the 29-year-old son of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was among the six men kidnapped, Jalisco Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer said at a news conference Tuesday.
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The Los Angeles men's clothing company saw a sudden boost in sales starting two weeks ago because of Joaquin Guzman, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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The Oscar-winning actor, 49, portrays Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in his new film Loving Pablo — which also stars Cruz, 44, as journalist Virginia Vallejo, who had a tumultuous love affair with Escobar.
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New York (CNN)In the procession of cartel members and law enforcement agents who have testified against Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the face of former Colombian drug lord Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia stood out.
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Former DEA Deputy Administrator Jack Riley told the New York Post that he wanted Penn prosecuted for obstruction, adding that the 2015 interview foiled an attempt to capture the then-at-large drug lord.
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Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Monday made an appearance at a New York City courthouse where jurors have started to deliberate in the case of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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It was scheduled to take place just a couple of months after the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, or "El Chapo," met his downfall after he agreed to an interview with Sean Penn.
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According to the documents, Mr. Ramírez del Cid was one of the three who stayed behind the night before the antidrug czar was killed in 2009 to place the call to the drug lord.
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Medellín, Colombia, was once considered the world's most dangerous city, and was best known as a hotbed of violence during the country's civil war, as well as the base of drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sons of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman murdered a journalist well known for his coverage of drug cartels, a former associate testified at Guzman's U.S. trial on Wednesday.
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The former president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, once accepted a $22 million bribe from Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, a witness at Mr. Guzman's trial said on Tuesday.
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Mexican newspaper El Universal publishes leaked photographs of Del Castillo and Penn that it says show them in the central city of Guadalajara before they head to their secret rendezvous with the drug lord.
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Both Beltrán Leyva and Valdez Villarreal would most likely have significant information to provide about El Chapo if plea agreements exist that require them to testify against the most famous drug lord of all.
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Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, eluded the grasp of the government numerous times — in tunnels, behind closets, beneath bathtubs and through steep ravines in the remote mountains of Sinaloa.
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That would be the drug lord known as Viking (Tom Bateman), who lives a privileged existence and is caught in the middle of a custody battle with his ex-wife over their young son.
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January 232 - Alex Cifuentes, a former personal aide to Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, testifies that the drug kingpin once paid a $233 million bribe to former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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This is where federal agents brought Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, when he was extradited to the United States last week after two escapes from high-security Mexican prisons.
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First, the backstory ... Charles Cosby infamously dated Griselda Blanco -- a Colombian drug lord dubbed the Cocaine Godmother who's tied to hundreds of murders, including the deaths of every man she ever dated, except Cosby.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A secretive meeting that Hollywood star Sean Penn orchestrated with Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman in a jungle hideout late last year helped Mexico's government catch the world's most wanted drug lord, sources said.
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The Iowa senator wants to know if authorities ever interviewed El Chapo's daughter, Rosa Isela Guzman Ortiz, and for the agencies to thoroughly investigate and determine whether the reports about the drug lord are true.
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It was there that authorities arrested Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of drug lord "El Chapo" Guzmán and now a top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, who is wanted for extradition to the United States.
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Sean Penn talks about his "terrible regret" that the capture of the Mexican drug lord El Chapo overshadowed his Rolling Stone article, which he hoped would start a national conversation about the war on drugs.
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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the notorious Mexican cartel leader, paid a $100 million bribe to former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, a close associate of the infamous drug lord testified in US federal court Tuesday.
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A local organizer, Nya (Lex Scott Davis), and a local drug lord, Dmitri (Y'lan Noel), ex-lovers who have grown apart because of the latter's lifestyle, work in different ways to keep their community safe.
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Charlie Rose scored the first significant interview with Sean Penn since Rolling Stone published the actor's article about meeting the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, which set off a national debate on ethics.
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MEXICO CITY — Actor Sean Penn dismissed criticism of his interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a supposedly secret meeting that authorities say helped them track down the world's most-wanted trafficker.
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Even after it pledged allegiance to IS in 2015, many mistook it for a low-grade family mafia, with links to Marawi's former mayor, Solitario Ali, whom Mr Duterte has denounced as a drug lord.
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NSO's tools have been directly involved in the arrest of human rights activists and, in Mexico at least, spying on lawyers and journalists in an effort to catch the drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Despite using El Chapo as a marketing tool—the company advertises its shirts as the "most wanted shirt" on its website—Barabas makes it clear that it is not affiliated with the Mexican drug lord.
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The documentary, titled Escobar Exposed, has been described by the only son of the Colombian drug lord as the project in which he lost "the fear to speak" for the first time in his life.
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NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - Joaquin Guzman, the convicted Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, has escaped twice from maximum security prisons in Mexico, once by digging a mile-long tunnel from his cell.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The operation to recapture Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, the world's most-infamous drug lord, involved Mexican marines, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S Marshals, a senior Mexican police source said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer says authorities have wasted no time in sending the convicted Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo to an ultra-high-security prison where he will serve a life sentence.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has scheduled the trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman — for years his country's most wanted man — on drug trafficking and conspiracy charges for April 16, 2018.
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Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was sentenced to life plus 30 years in a U.S. prison Wednesday, bringing an end to a decades-long criminal career at the top of the narcotics trade.
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Guzman, who once met Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, confided he had not himself taken drugs for 20 years, and at the time, before his capture, considered himself a happy person "because of my freedom".
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) - The recent trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has reignited U.S. law enforcement officials' concerns about the use of prepaid cards to launder proceeds of crime.
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Wayne pulls a machete down from the wall and uses it to decapitate the screaming rival drug lord, taking the head back to put in the fridge of his organization's private morgue, for some reason.
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It's just the latest Mexican massacre to capture international attention, occurring not long after a botched military raid to capture the son of the drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán killed at least eight people.
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VICE News hit the streets of Los Angeles to meet admirers of El Chapo — and some ambitious entrepreneurs — who've found ways to celebrate the drug lord in the form of songs, T-shirts, and tacos.
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The singer -- who's half black, half Mexican -- was at LAX Tuesday when our photog posed a perplexing question: if the notorious drug lord listened to Miguel's music in his prison cell ... would Miguel be flattered?
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But as bad as the graft has been, the New York trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, has suggested that the swamp of bribery runs even deeper than thought.
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It was nearly two years ago that Mr. Guzmán, the infamous drug lord known as El Chapo, was extradited from Mexico and flown across the border, ending one of the century's most notorious criminal careers.
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The Mexican government has released a video laying out the official version of how federal forces tracked down and recaptured drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, six months after he escaped from maximum-security prison.
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It was first revealed in the article Hollywood actor Sean Penn wrote in Rolling Stone about meeting the drug lord in a mountain hideout in October that was published the day after he was arrested.
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Local paper Rio Doce reported that, last Saturday, a group of 150 gunmen even ransacked the mansion Chapo built for his mother in the tiny village of La Tuna, where the drug lord grew up.
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Following the successes of The Wire and Breaking Bad, Narcos, a drama about the hunt for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, launched a cartel genre takeover of Netflix in the second half of the 2010s.
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Gang members used heavy assault rifles in a breakout of violence last week in the northwestern city of Culiacan after officials briefly detained Ovidio Guzman, a son of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Mexican drug lord El Chapo, in the months before his arrest Friday, had two words to say about Donald Trump, who he allegedly threatened over the Republican front-runner's racially tinged remarks about illegal immigrants.
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You could imagine the girls of "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" finding kindred souls among the likes of Buffy, Sabrina and the vampire-dating Bella Swan, though they might think it's lame to admit it.
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The series, created by Vince Gilligan, follows Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a chemistry teacher who becomes a drug lord after he begins making meth with one of his former students, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has extradited a son of drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada to the United States to face trial on narcotics trafficking charges, a government official and media reports said on Friday.
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The Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo, could face life in prison after he was found guilty of all 23 counts at his drug conspiracy trial in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
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From 2008 to 2013 he headed Los Antrax, which protected drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, and was involved in murder, kidnapping, and narcotics trafficking to the United States.
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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is due back in court Monday, and the top item on the agenda will be deciding who gets to defend the accused Mexican drug lord when his trial begins in April.
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Readers enter a world they would otherwise never know: of lethal electricity wires and persistent mud, the brutal rule of the camp's drug lord, women's struggle for autonomy, the hope born of music and young love.
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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to sanction lawyers for accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman because his wife allegedly used a cellphone in the New York courthouse where he is on trial.
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And if you haven't heard much lately about the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, it's because his trial, which was meant to begin this month in federal court in Brooklyn, was postponed until September.
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For five seasons, Vince Gilligan's "Breaking Bad" kept fans on the edges of their seats with the story of how Walter White (Bryan Cranston) went from a mild-mannered chemistry teacher to a vindictive drug lord.
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The Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo" was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison plus thirty years at a hearing where he accused the U.S. government of corruption and of torturing him during his confinement.
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Guzmén sports a shaved head and no longer has a mustache in his latest mugshot, released by the Mexican government, a different look from in photos of the Mexican drug lord taken shortly after his arrest.
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The two-story red building where he lives is located in El Galán, a working-class neighborhood named after a liberal presidential candidate who was murdered in 1989, allegedly by Colombia's famous drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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But the Department of Justice reiterated in a statement after the verdict that as a candidate and then president, Hernandez received drug money for his electoral campaigns, including from Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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The image of a convicted drug lord encircled in rhinestones may be jarring for some, but others feels it's a form of cultural iconography symbolizing the many contradictions of El Chapo idolatry and Mexican-American identity.
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The Mexican drug lord was back in the Altiplano maximum-security prison on Saturday, the same facility from which he escaped in July by slipping through an elaborate tunnel that was dug to his shower stall.
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The two-pronged investigation -- into the actress's links to drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and into the finances of her boutique tequila brand, Honor Del Castillo -- will determine if drug money went to her business.
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While Sean Penn did not have much to say Saturday night about his just-released bombshell interview with notorious drug lord "El Chapo," his ex-wife and "good friend" Madonna had a few words for him.
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Guzman's dramatic capture in the town of Los Mochis on Friday followed a six month-long intelligence operation during which the drug lord relaxed his security just enough to allow authorities to pick up his trail.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A clandestine meeting that Hollywood star Sean Penn orchestrated with Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman in a jungle hideout late last year helped the Mexican government catch the world's most-wanted drug lord, sources said.
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Jeffrey Epstein is being held at a notorious Manhattan jail as he awaits a bail hearing in his sex-trafficking case — and he's sharing the facility Paul Manafort and Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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The witness, Jesus Zambada, also said he paid millions of dollars in bribes to former Mexican government official Genaro Garcia Luna on behalf of his brother, drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who remains at large.
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Entirely written in Spanish, the story reported on drug lord Adolfo Constanzo and his cultish cartel that believed Satanic devotion—replete with human sacrifice to the fallen angel—would protect their illegal operations from the federales.
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Car bombs were frequent in Colombia during decades of civil war between the state and various leftist rebel groups, as well as in violence involving the Medellin drug cartel led by dead drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An elderly Mexican drug lord convicted for the 1985 murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena will finish his sentence under home arrest, the Mexican government said on Wednesday.
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Fonseca was one of the founders of the Guadalajara cartel along with Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, pioneers in trafficking large amounts of cocaine in alliance with deceased Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Tse's cartel is said to have taken organized crime in Asia to a new level and investigators say he has risen to the leagues of Pablo Escobar and Mexico's notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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The vehicle had a starring role in "La Suburban Negra," or "The Black Suburban," his 276 installation and video about the drug trade, in which he plays a drug lord, a hit man and a cop.
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And she wasn't just any woman: She's the mother of Mexico's most infamous drug lord, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who is currently serving life in prison in the US for drug, money laundering, and murder charges.
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Behind the scenes: In recent months, an alleged drug lord in President Nicolás Maduro's inner circle has reached out to the White House through intermediaries, according to administration officials and other sources briefed on the outreach.
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Well into March, the event's website — which briefly vanished because its designer had not been paid — claimed it would take place on Fyre Cay, a private island that once belonged to the drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Inside an envelope was a cell phone with a seventeen-minute video of the drug lord nervously and perfunctorily answering only some of Penn's questions, which were read aloud to him by a man off-camera.
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Kate del Castillo — the Mexican telenovela superstar who helped arrange Sean Penn's meeting with the drug lord El Chapo in 2015, the same year she became an American citizen — plays her native country's idealistic first lady.
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New York (CNN)Witnesses in the case against Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman told authorities the drug lord had sex with young girls he called "vitamins" that gave him "life," according to court documents unsealed late Friday.
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Mexico City (AFP) - Since the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was extradited to the United States, a war has broken out for control of his Sinaloa cartel, leaving a growing trail of bodies.
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International criminal gangs have long been drawn to the porous frontier: Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord, is said to have owned a cargo plane that now sits outside the zoo in the border town of Tabatinga.
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Giancarlo Esposito, who plays the chillingly calm Breaking Bad drug lord who lost a battle with a wheelchair bomb in the Breaking Bad season 4 finale, confirmed his return to action in the Bad prequel on Wednesday.
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A lawyer representing Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has said that the imprisoned Mexican drug lord will sue Netflix and Univision if they do not obtain his permission to air an upcoming drama series based on his life.
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Sánchez herself has denied she has ever met with Guzmán, refuted hints he could be the father of her two children, and ruled out that she ever received money from the drug lord for her electoral campaign.
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Altiplano is the same lockup near Mexico City from which the drug lord escaped last July and to which he was returned after his January 8 recapture in the coastal city of Los Mochis in Sinaloa state.
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But the celebration of picking up the biggest drug lord of all turned to humiliation when he slipped out of his cell on July 11 last year through a tunnel that began in the tiny shower area.
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During the U.S. trial, a witness testified that Tony Hernandez promised now-captive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman protection for his shipments in exchange for a $1 million donation to his brother's 2013 presidential campaign.
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Altiplano is the same lockup near Mexico City from which the drug lord escaped in July and to which he was returned after his January 8 recapture in the coastal city of Los Mochis in Sinaloa state.
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"Although the the 'drug lord' phrase is silly as it doesn't match my personality, I am looking forward to making the authentic strains available in legal states to support the Farm and the scholarships," she wrote.[Vocativ]
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Take teenage aspiring drug lord Lance Barabas, who ran an interstate drug ring along with his older brothers Larry and Landon, their friend Douglas Dodd, and others, distributing nearly 150,000 oxycodone pills in a two-year period.
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The second season of Narcos, Netflix's historical drama about drug lord Pablo Escobar and the law enforcement officers who worked to bring him down, is a marked improvement over the first — which I didn't like very much.
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The Sinaloa cartel, a Mexican drug gang with one of the largest footprints in the U.S., was formerly run by notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was extradited to the United States last year.
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Kate del Castillo — the actress who took Sean Penn to interview El Chapo — had already been under surveillance for her links to the drug lord for 83 months before the meeting took place in a mountain hideout.
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Kate del Castillo — the actress who took Sean Penn to interview El Chapo — had already been under surveillance for her links to the drug lord for 14 months before the meeting took place in a mountain hideout.
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The Mexican drug lord will instead spend the rest of his days in lock-up thousands of miles away in the United States, after a judge on Wednesday sentenced Guzman to life in prison, plus 30 years.
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One day after Rolling Stone published his clandestine interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquén "El Chapo" Guzmén Loera, Sean Penn has received social media backlash from many journalists – and is reportedly under investigation by the Mexican government.
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The 62-year-old drug lord, who had been protected in Mexico by an army of gangsters and an elaborate corruption operation, was brought to the US to stand trial after he twice escaped from Mexican prisons.
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In the early hours of Monday a suspected drug lord and his wife were shot dead by a gunman as they stepped off a ferry in the central province of Iloilo, national police spokesman Dionardo Carlos said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - One of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman's sons was among a group of people abducted from a restaurant in the Mexican tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta, the state attorney general said on Tuesday.
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Last February, Afghan special forces captured a prominent Taliban drug lord while, last December, Afghan police officers alongside DEA special agents and American special forces seized twenty tons of opium, the largest such seizure in modern history.
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He largely works in the latter mode on his single "El Chapo," in which he details the different weapons he'll use to get rid of enemies, much like the Mexican drug lord the song is named after.
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Car bombs were frequently used in Colombia during decades of civil war between the government and various leftist rebel groups, as well as in violence involving the Medellin cartel led by the late drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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The January 8 recapture of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán served as a boost for the governments of Mexico and the United States, which have sought for years to bring the powerful trafficker to justice.
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The attacks against the police reminded many Colombians of the violence the country endured in the 1980s and early 1990s, when some 550 police officers were murdered under the orders of Pablo Escobar, the powerful drug lord.
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In New York, the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, is locked up in the most secure wing of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he awaits trial, accused in the murder of thousands.
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Now in the mid-1980s, Narcos: Mexico shows how Gallardo helped create a Mexican drug lord most of us are familiar with: El Chapo, who makes his debut in season 2 as one of Gallardo's lowly workers.
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"If you are shot and I know you are a drug lord, I will run over you five times," said Duterte, who won the presidency in May 2016 on a platform of fighting corruption, crime and drugs.
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Other recent inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center have included the late financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Cesar Sayoc, who mailed pipe bombs to prominent Democrats.
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A third, underdeveloped story involves Lucia Villanueva (Emily Rios), the daughter of a Mexican drug lord seeking to expand her family's territory, and Gustavo Zapata (Sergio Peris-Mencheta), a soft-spoken wrestler she takes on as muscle.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former top lieutenant to accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on Tuesday said he and his former boss once discussed killing a police officer as a favor to a local politician.
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"It would not hurt the national ego for him to be there," said the source, who acknowledged that last year's highly embarrassing escape had encouraged the Mexican authorities to change their mind about extraditing the drug lord.
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Jesús Alfredo Guzmán, a son of the jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is among a group of men abducted at gunpoint from a swanky restaurant in the Pacific resort of Puerto Vallarta early on Monday.
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He added that the Mexican government will present a "diplomatic note" to U.S. authorities so that no other U.S. jurisdiction will be able to seek the death penalty, which is outlawed in Mexico, against the extradited drug lord.
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Rolling Stone has unquestionably and cunningly crafted one of the biggest click-baits in the history of modern journalism by getting Sean Penn to interview the Mexican drug lord El Chapo while the criminal was on the lam.
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A woman living in the United States who claims to be the daughter of El Chapo said in an interview with The Guardian in March that the fugitive drug lord visited her and her son in California twice.
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During its upfront presentation last week, Univision announced its new production arm Univision Story House would be working with Netflix to co-produce an "El Chapo" drama series, based on convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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In 2012, still flush from success in her role on "La Reina del Sur" as the drug lord Teresa Mendoza, Ms. del Castillo posted a letter on her Twitter account, a declaration of her philosophy, tastes and beliefs.
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A notorious drug lord was recaptured Friday in part because he had been working to make a biopic about his own life – which has now included multiple prison escapes – Mexican authorities said, according to CNN and ABC News.
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Mexico City (CNN)Jesus Alfredo Guzman, the 29-year-old son of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has been freed after he was kidnapped a week ago in Puerto Vallarta, three sources confirmed to CNN.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twelve New Yorkers were chosen Wednesday to sit on the jury that will decide the fate of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, whose trial on U.S. drug trafficking charges begins next week.
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Like other celebrities who have dabbled in journalism -- think Sean Penn's interview with the Mexican drug lord El Chapo -- Stone invites criticism as much by what he fails to ask, or follow up on, as what he does.
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News reports say that Joaquin Guzman Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo" (Shorty), was captured because he reached out to celebrities and producers as part of an effort to produce a movie about his life.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in Brooklyn has ruled that the identities of jurors expected to decide the fate of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman at a trial this year will be kept secret.
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It looks as if two-time Academy Award–winner and onetime drug-lord interviewer Sean Penn is going to make the leap from film to television in a new Hulu show from House of Cards creator Beau Willimon.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said on Friday they were seeking a court order requiring Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to forfeit $12.7 billion following his conviction for racketeering and drug trafficking crimes earlier this year.
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Finally, a judge in Mexico ruled that the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo could be extradited to the U.S., where he faces many charges and is less likely to be able to carry out another escape.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In barely four years, a little-known criminal gang has grown to challenge the world's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, for domination of the Mexican underworld, unleashing a new tide of violence.
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LOS MOCHIS, Mexico (Reuters) - For a few frantic hours after a bloody shootout in northwest Mexico on Friday, Mexican security forces lost track of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as they chased him through a sewer.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former bodyguard for accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman testified at Guzman's U.S. trial on Thursday that he watched his boss personally carry out three gruesome murders of rival drug cartel members.
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Cover: This undated photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office shows a diamond-encrusted pistol that a government witness said belonged to infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at Guzman's trial in New York, Monday, Nov.
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Their next collaboration, on Brian De Palma's "Scarface" (1983), is the story of a violent Cuban-American drug lord in Miami whose line "Say hello to my little friend" (referring to his sizable automatic weapon) entered film immortality.
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In "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord," a comedy until it isn't, four teenage girls, turned on by proximity to power, try to conjure the spirit of Pablo Escobar with Ouija boards and incantations borrowed from Candomblé and Santería.
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The difference is that this movie tries to rationalize both its violence and its characters' behavior, which shifts dramatically when Santiago suggests that he and his buddies rob the drug lord, who's bunkered in an Amazonian Fort Knox.
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Balarezo, who previously defended Mexican drug lord and Chapo rival Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, was the first to sign on to the case, and he has since been joined by William Purpura, a revered criminal defense attorney from Baltimore.
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Newly released video of the morning raid that led to the arrest of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, shows a fierce exchange of gunfire as a team of marines stormed his hide-out.
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If the allegations pan out, a credible case can be made that Tse has been a bigger player in the global drug trade than Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, and possibly even Colombian cartel leader Pablo Escobar.
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Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, the world's most wanted drug lord, was captured on January 8 in his home state of Sinaloa, known as the "cradle of Mexican drug trafficking" because of the large number of infamous narcos born there.
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Last week, after infamous drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested, Rolling Stone magazine ran an interview that actor Sean Penn had covertly conducted with the drug lord in October, before he was located by authorities in Mexico.
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But on Friday, nearly six months after his escape, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, was captured again after a fierce gun battle near the coast in his home state, Sinaloa, Mexican officials said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the United States blacklisted John Angel Zabaneh, a banana farmer and exporter in Belize, for alleged ties to a top drug lord, it did more than just sideline one local businessman from the global financial system.
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The two-term senator has also had some outside-the-box immigration ideas of his own, such as using the assets seized from Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, commonly known as "El Chapo," to fund a southern border wall.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The conviction of drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman in a U.S. court is a lesson that a life of crime and easy money doesn't bring happiness, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday turned down a last-ditch effort by accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to delay his trial, scheduled to begin next Monday with jury selection in Brooklyn federal court.
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Their entry has so far been delayed by prosecutors, who have refused to say they won't try to take a portion of the $14 billion that Chapo allegedly earned during his career as a drug lord from his lawyers.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A man who rose from a marijuana dealer in the United States to a high-ranking drug lord in Mexico is expected to plead guilty to U.S. drug and money laundering charges, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
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Investigations have shown that CJNG operatives contributed funds to defend people facing charges related to the July 2015 escape of El Chapo Guzman from Altiplano prison — the same prison where the once again arrested drug lord is currently detained.
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Drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán woke up this Saturday in maximum-security prison — the same prison in central Mexico from which he escaped in July thanks to a tunnel that began in the shower stall of his cell.
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Related: Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán Captured in Mexico: What You Need to Know At that time the authorities said the drug lord maintained six safe houses in the city kitted out with tunnels connected to the storm drainage network.
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The capture of the world's most wanted drug lord less than six months since his cinematic tunnel escape from a Mexican prison will likely do little to stem the flow of drugs across the border into the United States.
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One possible explanation for the humiliating defeat suffered by the Mexican military and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador last week in Culiacán, Sinaloa, where government forces caught and then released a major drug lord, may lie in these precedents.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico approved the extradition of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States on Friday after receiving guarantees he would not face the death penalty, and the kinkgpin's lawyers vowed to block the move.
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The "proposed nominee" document also listed two names for the United States attorney in Brooklyn, an office that is prosecuting Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord best known as El Chapo, the people familiar with the matter said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has opened a money laundering investigation into the actress who helped Hollywood star Sean Penn conduct an interview with drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a senior official said in an interview published on Tuesday.
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The 23-year-old high school dropout had cultivated various outlaw personas in the past, trying to make himself look like a gangster or a drug lord, according to interviews with his parents and friends in the Miami Herald.
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Related: Chapo's Return to Prison: The Hunt, the Biopic, and a Weakness for Tunnels Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán could fight off extradition requests from the United States for years, a high government official said on Monday.
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On the first day of alleged drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's trial in Brooklyn, jurors were told that the real mastermind behind the Sinaloa cartel was Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, another longtime kingpin who remains free in Mexico.
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While critics admonished Del Castillo's florid words for the drug lord, dubbing it apologia, the actress might have struck a chord with Mexicans on both sides of the border who were growing weary with the conflict's violence and terror.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government said on Sunday it had arrested the wife of top drug lord Nemesio Oseguera on charges of laundering funds for his powerful cartel that is blamed for driving heroin shipments to the United States.
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MEXICO CITY — There are indications that drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman had business dealings with actress Kate del Castillo, who arranged a meeting between the drug boss and actor Sean Penn, Mexico's attorney general said in an interview published Tuesday.
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As Mexican drug lord Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzmán was condemned to life in prison in a New York courtroom last week, fresh conflict was brewing back in his home state between factions of the criminal organization he led, the Sinaloa Cartel.
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It is here where magic and folklore take shape as blue-horned ghouls dance through Magdalena's visions and the white-faced ghosts of her husband and the drug lord El Sapo (who raped her daughter) follow her around like flies.
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Since leaving prison, the veteran drug lord has reputedly regained his status as an on-the-ground player in the Sinaloa cartel, thanks to his tutelage of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada in the '70s and '80s.
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Kimmy is self-involved and dispassionate; Titus (Titus Burgess) is a successful actor pretending to be straight; Lillian (Carol Kane) finds her niche as a drug lord, and Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) finds herself unhappily married to the closeted Mikey (Mike Carlsen).
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A few first-season plots were unmemorably resolved (specifically, the fate of local drug lord Wayne Lowry); other threads, from the emergence of Danny's wayward teenage son Nolan to the exploits of small-town criminal Eric O'Bannon, proved ultimately directionless.
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It turns out Marty is on the run after his money-laundering scheme fails, and he is required to figure out how to pay off a huge sum of money to a drug lord in a short period of time.
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She was referring to Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, who was recaptured in Mexico on Friday after escaping from prison last year, and who may now face extradition to the United States on drug charges.
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The capture of the drug lord concludes a deeply embarrassing chapter for the government of Mr. Peña Nieto, which has been waylaid by a series of security and corruption scandals that reached their low point with Mr. Guzmán's daring escape.
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Though Penn quoted Chapo as bragging about supplying more drugs "than anybody else in the world," during their face-to-face meeting, the drug lord taped a more humble response to a question about his role in the international drug trade.
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Some of the most explosive testimony was from Ardon, who told jurors that Tony Hernandez promised Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman protection for his shipments in exchange for a $1 million donation to his brother's presidential campaign in 2013.
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A series of flirtatious mobile phone messages between Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, appear to show the then fugitive drug lord being somewhat careless with his security, as well as ignorant of Hollywood pecking orders.
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The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman opened up about her life with the leader of the Sinaloa cartel for the first time, saying that she fears for her husband's life now that he is back in custody.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors said they want the Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to spend the rest of his life - plus 30 years - in prison, after he hears from a victim who survived one of his murder plots.
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BADIRAGUATO, Mexico (Reuters) - As Mexico and the United States celebrate the capture of Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, the world's most wanted drug lord, a mix of fear and mourning grips the towns and ranches in the remote mountains where he was born.
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Ostensibly intended to root out leftist militias, the operation was coordinated by then-Defense Minister Martha Lucía Ramírez, Duque's running mate, and executed in conjunction with Diego "Don Berna" Murillo Bejarano, perhaps the most powerful drug lord in Medellín's history.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rolling Stone magazine, heavily criticized for a now-debunked 2014 story describing a fraternity gang rape, is attracting new scrutiny after it published an interview by actor Sean Penn with Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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The trial venue, which will ultimately be decided by the U.S. attorney general, currently Loretta Lynch, is important because it will determine the specific charges that Guzman faces and the strength of the case against the world's top drug lord.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman feels neither remorse nor responsibility for smuggling billions of dollars worth of drugs into the United States, and does not consider himself a violent man despite countless murders blamed on him.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for Joaquin Guzman, the Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo", said Tuesday that he believed U.S. prosecutors had evidence that his client was a mere "lieutenant" in Sinaloa Cartel, not a leader as prosecutors claim.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman was among a group of people kidnapped from a restaurant in the Pacific Mexican tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta this week, the state attorney general said on Tuesday.
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For nearly two years, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have been promising to prove their case against Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, by bringing a small army of witnesses into court to testify against him.
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According to a secret dossier compiled by Venezuelan agents, Mr. El Aissami and his family helped sneak Hezbollah militants into the country and went into business with a drug lord, becoming a rich man as the economy was in disarray.
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Reboot tone: Gritty as fuck: Two showboat narcotics officers (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Tom Hardy) get framed by evil drug lord (Takeshi Kitano) and end up in super max prison surrounded by all the baddies they put away. Dir.
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Mr. Cifuentes first grew close to Mr. Guzmán in late 2007 when he went to live with the drug lord (and his entourage of secretaries, maids and bodyguards) in a series of secret hide-outs in the Sierra Madre mountains.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was a top leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel along with drug lord Ismael Zambada for years and personally invested in massive cocaine shipments to the United States, Zambada's brother told jurors on Wednesday.
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Almost from the moment this winter that Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo, was extradited from Mexico to a high-security jail in Lower Manhattan, he has been complaining about the terms of his imprisonment.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican security forces have released captured drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's son from a house where they briefly apprehended him on Thursday, Security Minister Alfonso Durazo told Reuters, saying the decision was taken to protect lives.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Three prisoners wanted by the United States for their links to drug trafficking, including an alleged associate of the sons of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, on Wednesday escaped from a Mexico City prison, authorities said.
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The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee wants to know whether federal investigators have interviewed the eldest daughter of famed drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, following a report that the incarcerated kingpin twice snuck into the U.S. to visit her.
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February 12 - A New York jury convicts Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on 10 counts including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine, and use of firearms.
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New York (CNN)Jurors weighing the fate of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán have spent about 24 hours over a single week behind closed doors, sifting through testimony and evidence that could send the accused drug lord to prison for life.
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New York (CNN)Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, who once headed a criminal enterprise that spanned continents and triggered waves of bloodshed throughout his native Mexico, was found guilty Tuesday of all 10 federal criminal counts against him.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who twice pulled off brazen jailbreaks and is fighting to avoid extradition to the United States, was abruptly transferred to a prison in northern Mexico near the Texas border early Saturday.
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According to Mr. Cifuentes, Mr. Peña Nieto first reached out to Mr. Guzmán about the time he was elected president in late 2012, asking the drug lord for $250 million in exchange for calling off a nationwide manhunt for him.
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Mexico's government said on Saturday that it is backing US requests to extradite drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to the United States, although it has also stressed there is a lengthy legal process to go through before this can happen.
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Hollywood actor Sean Penn wrote in Rolling Stone that Alfredo Guzmán drove him to meet El Chapo in October while the drug lord was still free, after his spectacular escape from prison in July and before his recapture last month.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman told a New York jury in opening remarks that his client was a scapegoat for the real leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
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According to email exchanges from 2014 between DCS caseworkers, officials were concerned for the children's safety because they believed their father may have been connected to the cartel, possibly as a drug lord, and was killed by them in 2010, WANE reports.
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The drug lord tells one of his lawyers in another chat, "the DEA has all her devices tapped, and at her house the DEA has cameras to see who visits her," apparently referring to a woman who was to meet with the actress.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico sent the world's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman back to the same maximum security prison he escaped from six months ago, the attorney general said, after security forces caught him in a dramatic morning raid on Friday.
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Related: El Chapo's Top Lawyer Talks About What It's Like Defending an Infamous Drug Lord "Following Cardenas' arrest, his attorney Chapa was the de facto head of CDG," Ball and another lawyer allege in court documents filed on behalf of Ledezma-Cepeda.
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MEXICO CITY — After long resisting requests from Washington, the Mexican government is moving toward extraditing Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, to the United States to face drug and murder charges there, Mexican officials said on Saturday.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he had told Mexican authorities to help two sisters and the mother of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman visit the drug lord in the United States following his conviction for narcotics trafficking.
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CULIACAN (Reuters) - The daughter of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman married another offspring of a drug empire in a lavish ceremony held in the cathedral of Sinaloa's state capital Culiacan, Mexican media reported, in a new display of her family's prominence.
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Lawyers for the recaptured Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo are trying to block his extradition to the U.S., a process likely to take at least a year and possibly much longer despite a high level of cooperation between the two countries.
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Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman escapes Immortalized in lyrics Guzman's latest cycle on the run can be traced to 2014, when he was arrested in a hotel in the Pacific beach town of Mazatlan, in his home state of Sinaloa.
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They raised concerns of possible escape plans by the notorious former drug lord, and cited an attempted 1981 jailbreak from that very spot in which an inmate's associates hijacked a sightseeing helicopter and attempted to cut through the wire screens surrounding the rooftop.
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The film — from A Most Violent Year director J.C. Chandor and Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) — tells the story of five estranged friends who reunite to help end the reign of a South American drug lord.
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Though his legal fate is sealed, the memory of El Chapo lives on in devoted fans across parts of Latin America and the U.S, and, for a growing number of women in Southern California, the drug lord remains enshrined in their nails.
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Xhafaj's resignation came as a surprise a week after police arrested 27 people in a major drug rings crackdown and two former ruling Socialist lawmakers over graft, but failed to catch a drug lord who has eluded arrest for two years now.
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Guzman, a legendary figure in Mexico who went from a farmer's son to the world's top drug lord, was apprehended after a shootout between gunmen and Mexican marines at the home in Los Mochis, a seaside city in Guzman's home state of Sinaloa.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday called the jail conditions of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman inhumane, while vowing to bring down violence stemming from drug violence by create a society less obsessed with material wealth.
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But when notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman says he'd rather be extradited to America (where he's wanted in seven states), it tells you just how crappy things have gotten for him since he pulled that break-out-of-jail stunt.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Actress Kate del Castillo, at the center of a Mexican money laundering probe after she helped Hollywood star Sean Penn interview drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, said Mexico's government wants to "destroy her," Univision reported over the weekend.
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While Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was once again locked up in the Altiplano maximum-security prison he escaped from this summer on Saturday, Rolling Stone published a bombshell report: the only interview with the notorious drug lord outside of an interrogation room.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said recaptured Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will have to answer to his crimes and the Justice Department confirmed that a previous request to extradite the kingpin to the United States still stands.
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Atlanta (CNN)The wife of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman says she fears for her husband's life and that the Mexican government is using harsh conditions to "get even" with the drug lord because his escapes made them look bad.
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In August, Mexico offered its own reward of 30 million pesos ($1.6 million) for information leading to the arrest of Oseguera, who has risen to become Mexico's most-wanted drug lord since Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was extradited to the United States.
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The initial focus is "Triple Frontier," a film directed by J.C. Chandor and starring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, Charlie Hunnam and Garrett Hedlund as friends who served in the special forces together, and who reunite to rob an infamous drug lord.
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Like the Prez, the Texas Senator's all about building the wall, and he tells TMZ the next step now that the Mexican drug lord has been sentenced to life in prison ... should be to use his $12.6 BILLION fortune to make it happen.
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" 'Queen of the South' (USA, June 23) This English-language remake of the popular telenovela "La Reina del Sur," about a young Mexican woman who becomes a drug lord, looks like it will be more "Narcos" than "Jane the Virgin" or "Ugly Betty.
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One subplot draws a parallel with the real-life case of a convicted drug lord who named the SAD deputy chief's brother-in-law as his accomplice (the brother-in-law, a state minister, says the accusations are baseless and politically motivated).
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Heavily armed fighters surrounded security forces in a Mexican city on Thursday and made them free one of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's sons, after his capture triggered gunbattles and a prison break that sent civilians scurrying for cover.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman rejected prosecutors' claims that the Mexican drug lord may try to escape from the Manhattan jail where he awaits sentencing, and said he should be afforded regular exercise on the building's roof.
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The ministry released a statement on Friday saying it has accepted a petition to try the drug lord in a Texas federal court for the crimes of criminal association, drug trafficking, organized crime, the illegal possession of firearms, homicide, and money laundering.
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A federal judge in Brooklyn dismissed claims on Friday that Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord best known as El Chapo, had been improperly extradited to the United States from Mexico, handing the defendant the latest in a string of legal defeats.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the trial of "El Chapo" Joaquin Guzman on Tuesday played excerpts from what they said were incriminating phone calls made by the accused Mexican drug lord and intercepted by the FBI after they infiltrated his encrypted messaging system.
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Watch "Cashing in on 'El Chapo'" The January 8 recapture of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán served as a boost for the governments of Mexico and the United States, which have sought for years to bring the powerful trafficker to justice.
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Related: El Chapo's Top Lawyer Talks About What It's Like Defending an Infamous Drug Lord Rodríguez said that, as far as he is aware, court injunctions that block Mexican authorities from sending Chapo to the US to face trial remain in place.
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In an internal document, the US Customs and Border Protection agency found in 153 that there is "no perceptible pattern" to show that the capture or killing of a top Mexican drug lord increases or decreases drug seizures at the US-Mexico border.
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But nothing has highlighted the scope of Paraguay's security challenges and the weakness of its institutions more than the events set off by the detention last December of Marcelo Pinheiro Veiga, a Brazilian drug lord at the center of much of this havoc.
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That is a far cry from the likes of Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and other billionaire players in Mexico and Colombia, where vertically integrated large-scale operations can control most of the cocaine supply chain, from production to retail.
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He is tall and muscular, and before he hit the big time as the drug lord Stringer Bell in "The Wire," he was a bouncer (and pot dealer) at the comedy club Carolines on Broadway, sometimes living in his Chevy Astro van.
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As the authorities in New York prepare for the trial next month of the world's most famous drug lord — Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who is best known as El Chapo — they have taken extraordinary steps to keep those who will testify from getting killed.
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On the first day of the trial on Wednesday, prosecutors said that the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo had delivered $1 million to the president's brother with the intention that the money would be funneled on to the country's leader.
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Michael Avenatti is being held in the former jail cell of Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, his lawyers said in a letter sent Monday, arguing that the well-known attorney doesn't deserve the extreme precautions that authorities are making him endure.
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"Farmer." The interview is part of a four-year-old video released this week which appears to offer rare footage of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, who is now under lock and key for life at a top-security U.S. prison.
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That is not, however, what seems to have happened when the crime magazine Don Diva published an article nearly 10 years ago reporting incorrectly that a federal inmate had once worked as a government informant and testified against a murderous Brooklyn drug lord.
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NEW YORK, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Michael Avenatti is living in a jail cell that reportedly once housed convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, making it impossible for the celebrity lawyer to prepare for his upcoming extortion trial, his lawyers said.
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That entanglement began in late 2007, when the magazine, in its 30th edition, published an interview with Kenneth McGriff, a Queens drug lord known as Supreme, who inaccurately stated that a former partner was a government informant and had testified against him.
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That group, also known as the Beltran Leyva Organization, split from and went to war in 2008 against the Sinaloa cartel, formerly run by the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, sent to U.S. prison for a life term in July.
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Le Roux's name, however, was mentioned several times during the hearing on Monday, and Hunter's lead attorney, Marlon Kirton, reiterated a previous claim that his client only worked for the drug lord because he and his family members had been threatened with death.
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According to email exchanges from 2014 between DCS caseworkers, officials were concerned for the children's safety because they believed their father may have been connected to the cartel, possibly as a drug lord, and was killed by them in 2010, WANE reported in February.
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As has been previously reported by Vice, Colombian drug lord Jorge Cifuentes testified that Rodriguez had forgot to renew a license key critical to the communications network of Guzmán's Sinaloa Cartel in September 2010, forcing cartel leaders to temporarily rely on conventional cell phones.
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Last September, when it was confirmed that Narcos was picked up for two more seasons, we were left wondering how the show would continue after the death of drug lord Pablo Escobar, a character whose story drove the first two seasons of the show.
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Her children Mercy and David walked the carpet in front of them like flower children at a wedding, right as news broke that Rolling Stone published an article by Mr. Penn interviewing the fugitive drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo.
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The actor Sean Penn said he has "a terrible regret" that the capture of the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo has distracted from his article in Rolling Stone, which he had hoped would start a national conversation about the war on drugs.
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Read: El Chapo's lawyer says there's evidence he was just a middle manager Chapo eventually hired Eduardo Balarezo, who previously represented Mexican drug lord Alfredo Beltrán-Leyva, and William Purpura, a veteran attorney who has been involved in several high-profile cases over the years.
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MEXICO CITY — Affectionate cellphone messages left by the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera for the actress Kate del Castillo have some in Mexico wondering if Mr. Guzmán, the former fugitive known as El Chapo, was interested in more than just a friendly interview with her.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican judge has ruled that drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman can be extradited to face charges in the United States, the country's federal court authority said on Monday, days after he was moved to a prison near the U.S. border.
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Drug lord's wife: 'The treatment .. is inhumane' Altiplano prison is the same place near Mexico City from which the drug lord escaped last July and to which he was returned after his January 8 recapture in the coastal city of Los Mochis in Sinaloa state.
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LOS MOCHIS, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico aims to extradite drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman to the United States after security forces recaptured the fugitive cartel leader who blew his cover through a series of slip ups, including an attempt to make a movie about his life.
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At a Culiacan chapel dedicated to the folk saint of drug smugglers, Jesus Malverde, vendors sell figurines of a mustachioed Guzman wielding a rifle and grenades as well as framed photos of the drug lord, right alongside colorful rosaries and images of Jesus Christ.
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LOS MOCHIS, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico recaptured the world's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a pre-dawn shootout and chase through drains on Friday, returning him to the same prison he escaped from six months ago, in a boost for the beleaguered government.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Mexico is not directly investigating the actors Sean Penn or Kate Del Castillo for meeting with drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, but it will look into the circumstances of their meeting, government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said on Tuesday.
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Since 2007, CICIG has helped secure the arrest of scores of suspects once considered untouchable — including a reputed drug lord and three former presidents, one of whom was forced from office after the commission exposed a corruption ring run out of the presidential palace.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Veteran drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero denied carrying out one of the most notorious murders in Mexico's narco wars — the killing of U.S. anti-drugs agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena in 1985 — and said he was no longer involved in drug trafficking.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a US prison, a humbling end for a drug lord once notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble.
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Former drug lord Pablo Escobar's property in Miami Beach has also been listed for sale, and most recently, a Los Angeles home where Charles Manson's followers murdered Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in 1969 was put up for sale with an asking price of $1.98 million.
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El Chapo was one of the most wanted men in the world and Sean Penn knew exactly where to find him ... meeting with the drug lord for a long interview while he was on the run, and the actor clearly felt Chapo's star power.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Details of flirtatious phone messaging chats between Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and actress Kate del Castillo have gripped Mexico, and an official said his "obsession" with her led him to lower his guard and be caught.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday asked a federal judge to strike the opening statement made a day earlier by the lawyer for accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on the first day of his trial in Brooklyn for drug smuggling.
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Half Baked: Thurgood and Brian vs Samson Simpson and his women In a sting gone wrong, Thurgood (Dave Chappelle), Scarface (Guillermo Diaz) and Brian (Jim Breuer) are left to defend themselves against the drug lord and his army of vaguely Ninja Turtle-esque women.
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Related: Mexican Drug Lord Lived in a Cave and Was Caught Because His Girlfriend Brought Him Birthday Cake Following Chapo's previous arrest in February 22012 and before his elaborate escape last July, Mexico's most wanted criminal was Servando Gómez Martínez, known as La Tuta.
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Following the allegations of an intimate relationship between the actress and the drug lord, Mexican media reported this week that Guzmán visited a plastic surgeon in Tijuana around the time of his meeting with Del Castillo and Penn, to have a penile prosthesis implanted.
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Cogan ordered Chapo to sign a financial affidavit declaring himself too poor to afford private counsel, and told prosecutors "if the government doesn't like it, they can investigate it," meaning they could try to prove that the drug lord has significant assets hidden somewhere.
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Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, a purported billionaire, has maintained since his extradition from Mexico in January that he can't afford to hire his own lawyers, but it appears the Sinaloa Cartel leader is finally ready to part ways with his public defenders.
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In the season finale, "And Salt the Earth Behind You," both storylines come to an incoherent climax, with the drug lord menacing Rue's hapless drug dealer friend and Nate breaking down, battering his head against the floor during an argument with his controlling father.
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In a rare but not surprising move, a federal judge in Brooklyn has ruled that when Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, goes on trial in September, the case will be heard by an anonymous and partly sequestered jury.
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More than a year before the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera pulled off one of the most notorious prison breaks in history, he got word to his associates of how he planned to escape through an unlikely source: his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro.
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In 2007, after his brother — a former pilot for the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar — was killed, Mr. Cifuentes fled to Ecuador, where he began arranging drug deals with the FARC for Mr. Guzmán and protecting their investment by bribing a local military officer.
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She nimbly pings between arcane, medieval and modern sources, assembling a cast of characters that includes unhinged aristocrats, ill-fated adventurers, Thomas Jefferson, Julius Caesar, Sigmund Freud, the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and more than a few mad scientists.
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher Nearly two years after being extradited from Mexico, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, is finally facing trial in a United States court.
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By the end of the first episode, he is wide-awake — he has witnessed multiple murders and is moving his family to Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks in a last-ditch effort to placate the drug lord he has been laundering money for in secret.
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And while some jurors expressed fear about having to serve on a trial where they would face the notorious drug lord, as the trial progressed the 12 jurors and eight alternates seemed at ease, sometimes laughing and chatting with each other during short breaks.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's president said Monday his government still intends to arrest Ovidio Guzman, son of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, once it can do so safely after the suspected trafficker's forces waged gun battles with authorities in the northwestern city of Culiacan.
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Jhon Jairo Velásquez, a former member of the Medellín drug cartel who boasted of committing hundreds of murders on behalf of the drug lord Pablo Escobar, and who parlayed his criminal past into a popular YouTube channel, books and a movie, died on Feb.
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A New York City officer named Ishmael Bailey had an off-duty job as a bodyguard this year for the wife of one of the most notorious defendants to step inside a courthouse — Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador declared an end to the days of collusion between crime and government, saying in a holiday address there was a time when drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was as powerful as the country's president.
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El Chapo: Two days before jurors were set to begin deliberations in the trial of the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, prosecutors unsealed secret documents in which an associate said Mr. Guzmán routinely raped girls as young as 13 years old, sometimes by drugging them.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Self-described computer whiz Christian Rodriguez told jurors on Thursday how he had a nervous breakdown from the stress of cooperating with the FBI to hack into the secure communication system he built for accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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With the interview she brokered between actor Sean Penn and drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the actress Kate del Castillo obliterated the boundaries between fiction and reality in the murky world of drug lords and the mass media machines that profit off their stories.
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Related: El Chapo's Top Lawyer Talks About What It's Like Defending an Infamous Drug Lord The authorities released a statement on Saturday morning saying that the decision to move Chapo was due to "construction work" in order to "reinforce security" at the Altiplano prison.
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Tomas Osmeña, mayor-elect of Cebu City, the second largest city in the Philippines and 500 kilometers and several islands north of Davao, said he is willing to give the police 50,000 pesos or ($1,076) for every drug lord, robber or other criminal killed.
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This is perhaps unsurprising given that Mexico is at the heart of the trade to bring drugs from Latin America into the US. Notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has managed to escape prison twice, helped by giving huge bribes to prison officials.
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That the drug war affects people who aren't American, for instance, is now understood: Narcos is not only the story of U.S Drug Enforcement Administration agent Steve Murphy's hunt to bring Escobar down, but also the saga of Pablo Escobar's transformation into Colombia's top drug lord.
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Resentments between the Zambada and Guzmán clans have been fed by the trial of El Chapo in the United States, but also that of El Mayo's son Vicente, who testified against the legendary drug lord in order to bring down his own sentence for drug trafficking charges.
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MEXICO CITY — Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was eager to set up a face-to-face meeting with Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, and had apparently never heard of Sean Penn, according to transcripts of over a month of text messages exchanged between the two.
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Via his lawyers, particularly Granados, the drug lord offered the rights to his biography to Mexican actress Kate del Castillo who made a major impression on him as the star of the telenovela La Reina del Sur, or the Queen of the South, about a female capo.
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Related: El Chapo's Top Lawyer Talks About What It's Like Defending an Infamous Drug Lord Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa was sitting in the passenger seat of his Range Rover in the parking lot of an upmarket shopping center in suburban Dallas when the assassins came for him.
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Testifying in court, Rodriguez recounted who he was asked by Guzmán to install "spyware" on the phones used by Guzmán's wife and girlfriend, a feature that allowed the drug lord to check their calls, emails, texts, location, and even turn on the microphone at his whim.
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World Briefing The Mexican government said on Tuesday evening that it would not be investigating the actors Sean Penn or Kate del Castillo for their meeting with the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, clarifying that it would rather be looking into the circumstances surrounding the meeting.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge said Tuesday he planned to call 800 to 1,000 potential jurors for the trial of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in a sign of how complex it will be to try drug the Mexican drug lord on trafficking and conspiracy charges.
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You have to wonder about the timing of this episode, which features Kate del Castillo — the Mexican telenovela star who joined Sean Penn in interviewing the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, in the months before his capture on Friday — as Ana's rival.
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On Day 1, El Chapo made a guest appearance, as prosecutors claimed that in 2013 the Mexican drug lord, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, then the most wanted man in the world, had flown to Honduras and hand-delivered Tony Hernández $1 million for the current president's election campaign.
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Recent decades have seen the rise of arbitrary abductions and killings in the regions of Mexico that host the country's leading cartel headquarters; much of the violence is as nonsensical as it is brutal, and yet the myth of the benevolent drug lord persists beyond Mexico's borders.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The owner of a Singapore bar named "Escobar" said a picture of the Colombian drug lord may have been a bad choice after angry complaints and a warning from the narcotics agency in a country known for its zero-tolerance policy on illegal drugs.
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Just days after his 2000 capture, Guzman's larger-than-life reputation was sealed when U.S. movie star Sean Penn published a lengthy account of an interview he conducted with the drug lord, which the Mexican government said was "essential" to his capture a few months later.
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The legendary Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero has denied he played any important role in the 214 murder of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, and has refuted reports that he is currently heading an assault on territory controlled by former allies in the Sinaloa cartel.
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Just days after his capture, "Chapo's" larger-than-life reputation was sealed when U.S. movie star Sean Penn published a lengthy account of an interview he conducted with the drug lord - a meeting the Mexican government said was "essential" to his eventual capture a few months later.
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The story of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán was already stranger than fiction — but it took an even more bizarre turn on Saturday night when Rolling Stone published a lengthy feature story authored by the actor Sean Penn, who met the fugitive drug lord at a mountain hideout.
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The conservative Texas senator thinks the $14 billion in assets the US government is trying to get from the reputed drug lord -- whose real name is Joaquin Guzman -- would be a nice down payment on Trump's vision of a "big, beautiful" wall on the southern border.
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Just days after his 214 capture, Guzman's larger-than-life reputation was sealed when U.S. movie star Sean Penn published a lengthy account of an interview he conducted with the drug lord, which the Mexican government said was "essential" to his capture a few months later.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Actress Kate del Castillo, at the center of a Mexican probe into money laundering after she helped Hollywood star Sean Penn conduct an interview with drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, will give evidence in Los Angeles, according to her father.
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I won't go into all the events they figured in, but I'll report this much about Dundun: a couple of years after we met in jail, he partnered up with the blond sociopathic giant Jocko, and together they robbed a notorious drug lord in Kansas City.
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The story she tells is harrowing — years of confinement and rape, human trafficking, life in the fortified compound of a Mexican drug lord, then a terrifying escape and a single-minded trek home — but is it the truth, a wholesale fabrication or some hybrid of both?
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Since hosting an episode of Chef's Night Out there in late 2015, he and his team have cooked for rock stars and former presidents, and even got caught up in a dramatic confrontation between cartel gunmen and the sons of the world's most notorious drug lord.
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Prosecutors had sought to have Chapo appear in court by video conference, but Judge Brian Cogan denied the request, forcing federal authorities to put the courthouse on lockdown and transport the drug lord via a convoy from the high-security Manhattan jail where he's being held.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Fels told jurors in his opening statement on Tuesday that the evidence in the case would trace the story of Guzman's rise from a low-level marijuana trafficker to a powerful drug lord who became one of the world's most wanted fugitives.
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The Mexican telenovela actress at the center of a storm over her links with drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has said almost nothing herself, but those around her are insisting that she is being scapegoated by the authorities, and was betrayed by actor Sean Penn.
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Big Papi also touches on a rumor that Dominican drug lord Cesar Emilio Peralta might've been the one who ordered the hit, but he again came back with uncertainty ... saying he couldn't think of any reason why that would be the case -- if, in fact, it is.
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MEXICO CITY/BADIRAGUATO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday defended his weekend handshake with the mother of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, calling her a "respectable old lady" and seeking to cast his critics as the principal menace to the country.
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The Emmy-winning actor, who portrayed chemistry teacher-turned-drug lord Walter White in the AMC hit series and made a cameo in the El Camino Netflix film, shared a behind-the-scenes video to his Instagram on Monday that showed his process getting into character.
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So it goes even with Joaquin Guzman Loera, the infamous drug lord known as El Chapo, who was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday in New York for smuggling tons of drugs into the United States and leaving a trail of death in his wake.
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So it goes even with Joaquin Guzman Loera, the infamous drug lord known as El Chapo, who was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday in New York for smuggling tons of drugs into the United States and leaving a trail of death in his wake.
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Stone has also compared the law enforcement presence the morning of his arrest to the forces deployed against drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, known as "El Chapo," and Osama bin Laden, the former al Qaeda leader who was killed by US Special Forces in a 2011 raid.
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The film — which will stream on Netflix and play in theaters for one weekend only — is based off of Breaking Bad, the Emmy-winning series that followed Cranston as Walter, a chemistry teacher turned drug lord, and Paul as Jesse, his student and fellow meth-maker.
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The botched outcome of the arrest warrant for Ovidio Guzman Lopez, son of the infamous drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is a stark reminder of where power is held south of the border; political protestations from down under should be taken with a pinch of salt.
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The mutual fascination between the actress and the drug lord — laid bare in a series of leaked messages — apparently stemmed from her role as the lead in the fictional series about a ruthless drug boss called La Reina Del Sur, or The Queen of the South.
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Mexico City (CNN)A bloody, prolonged shootout between Mexican security forces and suspected cartel members in Sinaloa state this week was an intentional — and ultimately abandoned — attempt to capture a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman for extradition to the United States, Mexican officials now say.
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Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Spotify Chapo: Kingpin on Trial, Vice One of the biggest names in the War on Drugs is Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the world's largest Mexican drug lord who made headlines in recent years when he escaped from a Mexican prison via a tunnel in 2015.
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The concept of "prior review," in which the subject of a piece is allowed to see the prose before it runs, is controversial in journalism, to say the least, and doubly so when the subject asking for the ability to control his image is an alleged drug lord.
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Following actor Sean Penn's bizarre interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, there are some questions about whether Penn could face legal troubles for meeting and talking to the fugitive — who escaped from a Mexican prison just six months ago — without turning over information to the police.
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Kate del Castillo spoke out earlier this week about the meeting between Sean Penn and the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquén "El Chapo" Guzmén Loera, recounted in a controversial Rolling Stone story, which del Castillo said she had no advance knowledge of, her lawyer told the Associated Press.
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The dealer turned informant, who became the drug lord du jour mid-1980s Detroit, was paroled from his life sentence in Michigan last summer and is now doing a five-year sentence in Florida for his dealings with stolen cars while he was in the witness protection program.
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That's what a federal judge basically said in a new order after the drug lord bitched about his prison conditions -- from no free access to channel surfing and a stationary bike that faces away from the TV to the size of his cell inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The pool of potential jurors for the U.S. drug trafficking trial of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman continued to shrink on Tuesday, with two people who expressed fears about their safety and one self-described "fan" of the defendant cut from the running.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Mexican actress Kate del Castillo helped orchestrate a secret meeting between actor Sean Penn and drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in what became an explosive Rolling Stone article, little did she know she'd be drawing from the experience for her new Netflix series.
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MEXICO CITY — A Mexican judge has ruled that the country's most notorious drug lord, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, can be extradited to the United States, where he would face federal charges of drug trafficking and far slimmer chances of escaping prison, as he has done twice in his home country.
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US District Judge Brian Cogan in Brooklyn granted permission Wednesday for Guzman to be evaluated following a defense motion alleging that solitary confinement in a cold, small cell at a federal lockup in Manhattan had the drug lord forgetting names and places and suffering from hallucinations, paranoia and depression.
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In CB McKenzie's outsider regional mystery BURN WHAT WILL BURN (Thomas Dunne/Minotaur, $24.99), Reynolds rashly makes a play for the local beauty, Tammy Fay Smith, ignoring the prior claim of Sam Baxter, High Sheriff of Poe County, who also happens to be the county's High Drug Lord.
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The story is told from four perspectives: that of Margot, a politician in the United States; Allie, a girl who escapes an abusive foster home where she was regularly raped by her foster dad; Tunde, a young Nigerian journalist; and Roxy, the daughter of a British drug lord.
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These questions drove AMC's "Breaking Bad," in which a high school teacher transforms himself into a ruthless drug lord, as they have that show's prequel series, "Better Call Saul," about a good-hearted lawyer with a slippery past (Bob Odenkirk) whose fate, as we know, leads to perdition.
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EL CHAPO AND THE BORDER WALL President Trump recently claimed that a border wall could stop the flow of drugs into the country from Mexico, but 10 weeks of testimony at the trial of the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, tell a different story.
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Every few months or so, whenever he is called to go to court, something awful happens: The police must close the entire Brooklyn Bridge, stranding hundreds of motorists as the world's biggest drug lord is swept across the East River in a speeding motorcade of heavily armored cars.
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Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman), a money manager enduring an unsatisfying routine in the Chicago suburbs with his wife (Laura Linney) and two children, finds his life turned on its head when he witnesses multiple murders at the hands of a drug lord for whom he has been laundering money.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged a former Mexican federal police commander with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Mexican drug cartels to help them send cocaine into the United States, in a case linked to imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Culiacan's central Tres Rios neighborhood, with its gated communities, upscale shopping centers and exclusive golf course, was victim to some of the most intense firefights last Thursday, concentrated on the street where soldiers attempted to arrest Ovidio Guzman, a son of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Public defenders are reserved for defendants with limited assets, and the government will often challenge whether those who apply for them really qualify, as they did in the case of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo who is currently incarcerated in New York.
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With that in mind, I was surprised to hear from a Colombian contact of mine, who has served time in a UK jail for drug trafficking, that he knew a young trans woman back in his home country who had a very open romance with a Colombian drug lord.
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In January 2015, when Guzmán was still in jail, then-Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam discounted the possibility that Guzmán would be shipped to the US anytime soon, saying the drug lord could be transferred after he served his time in Mexico — in " 300-400 years" said Karam.
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