When Alejandro Edda showed up at the federal courthouse in downtown Brooklyn on Jan. 28, 2019, he didn’t turn heads — not at first. The 37-year-old actor is not a household name, and in real life he doesn’t much look like the man he depicts in his best-known role to …
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In 1997, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was on the defensive. Locked up for the past five years, cornered by enemies, isolated from his family by the enemy gunmen he worried could be lurking outside the prison walls, and living in perpetual fear of being extradited to the United States, …
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For a time, despite the high price on his head, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s life wasn’t so bad. Ensconced in a series of mountain hideouts in the Sierra Madre Occidental range of his home state of Sinaloa, on the west coast of Mexico, Guzmán would typically wake up at noon, …
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The brutality of the international drug trade was front and center this week at the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, with one witness testifying in chillingly calm tones about dozens of gangland murders.The only catch? El Chapo wasn’t the murderer in question. In a riveting back and forth with …
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