After 25 years on the run - hiding from the army and the police, imprisoned and staging astonishingly audacious escapes – Mexico’s most infamous drug lord finally had his day in court. Thirty minutes later, it was all over. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the $14 billion man, a short and stocky 61-year-old cartel leader sent to the US on the last day of Barack Obama’s presidency, had only one witness called to his defence. And even that witness, an FBI agent who gave fleeting evidence about a cocaine supplier that testified for the prosecution, was reluctant. “He didn’t set out to help me,” Guzman’s lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, told the court, somewhat ruefully. The convoy containing Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman passing through Brooklyn, en route to the court On Monday the jury will retire to consider their verdict on 10 trafficking, money laundering and firearms counts, at the end of a trial which, the prosecution said, presented “an avalanche” of evidence against the man who famously ...
