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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UPDATE: The House of Representatives passed the MORE Act on Friday by a vote of 228-164. The vote fell largely along party lines, with 6 Democrats voting against the bill and 5 Republicans voting for it. The chamber’s lone Libertarian member, Rep. Justin Amash, voted for it. “I’m so proud …
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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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