He told Forbes that most Mexican drug lords plough their revenues into "operations and protection", estimating that "El Chapo probably makes well below a billion per year". Some of his assets were mentioned during his week trial in New York.
The most jaw-dropping revelations, however, were not about his wealth. She said the courtroom "looked like a real-life movie", the jurors watching intently as they would a Netflix show.
While Coronel remained placid, the trial's astonishing moments shocked others. Court papers also accused him of drugging and raping girls as young as 13, calling them his "vitamins". The scale of his drug trafficking operation was laid bare, too. In a trial that attracted podcasters, screenwriters and true-crime obsessives, some observers said the media attention trivialised the proceedings.
The intention was quite the contrary, our correspondent said. The trial was meant to be a public spectacle to show what El Chapo and his henchmen had done and to send a warning to others, she said. Drug lord 'El Chapo' sentenced to life in prison. Disturbing allegations in 'El Chapo' trial. A guide to Mexico's most powerful drug cartels. Image source, Reuters.
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Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Latin America. US Government. Sign Up. Gay Rights. Just 14 months after Guzman landed in Mexico's maximum-security Altiplano prison, he broke out in July After Guzman's getaway, authorities said they made a shocking find underground: a lighted and ventilated tunnel, replete with tracks and a modified motorcycle inside. The tunnel, Mexican National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said , began with a 50 x 50 centimeter 20 x 20 inch opening inside a shower in Guzman's cell.
Guzman didn't have much space to slip out of his cell in the maximum-security Altiplano prison. That opening, officials said, connected to a vertical passageway going about 10 meters 33 feet underground. A ladder leads down a hole to El Chapo's escape tunnel. The passageway, outfitted with a ladder, led to a tunnel that was about 1. Inside the passageway, investigators found what Rubido described as an "adapted motorcycle on tracks that was likely used to remove dirt during the excavation and transport the tools for the dig.
Authorities say there was a modified motorcycle on tracks inside the tunnel Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman used to escape from a maximum-security prison. In one respect, the tunnel was notably different from others Guzman's Sinaloa cartel had built.
Department of Homeland Security. It was a sign, Dinkins said, that a cartel known for building sophisticated tunnels to send drugs across the U. You're not going to bring in the B squad," Dinkins said. One Mexican official estimated the tunnel took about a year to build, and that whoever built it took out about truckloads worth of sand and dirt. The passageway stretched for more than a mile and ended inside a half-built house. Crews started building the house in December , then stopped a few months later, according to a farmer who lived nearby.
The facade appeared to be finished around February or March, the farmer said, but workers kept moving dirt around the property for months -- until the day before Guzman's escape, when all of them were gone. ICE agent: 'El Chapo' 'perfected' tunneling system.
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