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Cartel kingpin El Chapo is jailed for life, but the US-Mexico drug trade is booming

  • Written by Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
Kingpin no longer.AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File

The infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera – aka “El Chapo” – has been sentenced to life plus an additional 30 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy, money laundering and weapons charges, among other crimes committed over the past...

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