{"id":8422,"date":"2019-02-13T06:50:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T22:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2019-02-13T06:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T22:50:40","slug":"el-chapo-found-guilty-on-all-10-charges-faces-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=8422","title":{"rendered":"El Chapo Found Guilty on All 10 Charges, Faces Life in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mesico-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mesico-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mesico-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mesico-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mesico-600x300.jpg 600w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mesico.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy .telesurenglish.net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW YORK, Feb 13 (NNN-TELESUR) \u2014 The world&#8217;s most infamous cartel boss Joaquin &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzman, who rose from poverty in rural Mexico to run a global drug empire and amass billions of dollars, was found guilty in a U.S. court on Tuesday of operating a criminal <g class=\"gr_ gr_9 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style multiReplace\" id=\"9\" data-gr-id=\"9\">enterprise .<\/g><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jurors in federal court in Brooklyn began delivering their verdict following an 11-week trial. Guzman, 61, now faces a possible sentence of life in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guzman, one of the major figures in Mexican drug wars that have roiled the country since 2006, was extradited to the United States for trial in 2017 after he was arrested in Mexico the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though other high-ranking cartel figures had been extradited previously, Guzman was the first to go to trial instead of pleading guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial, which featured testimony from more than 50 witnesses, offered the public an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the Sinaloa Cartel, named for the state in northwestern Mexico where Guzman was born in a poor mountain village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legend of Guzman was burnished by two dramatic escapes he made from Mexican prisons and by a &#8220;Robin Hood&#8221; image he cultivated among Sinaloa&#8217;s poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. prosecutors said he trafficked tons of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine into the United States over more than two decades, consolidating his power in Mexico through murders and wars with rival cartels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-facebook\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/teleSUREnglish\/videos\/1133073350169399\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Feb 13 (NNN-TELESUR) \u2014 The world&#8217;s most infamous cartel boss Joaquin &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzman, who rose from poverty in rural Mexico to run a global drug empire and amass billions of dollars, was found guilty in a U.S. court on Tuesday of operating a criminal enterprise . Jurors in federal court in Brooklyn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}