Tag: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Mexico to raffle assets belonging to drug lord “El Chapo” Guzmán

  

  Mexico's government announced that it will raffle a house belonging to drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, “El Chapo” and where he was arrested in 2014. “El Chapo” head of the Sinaloa cartel is now serving a life sentence in a US high-security prison.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Honduran president brother accused of receiving bribes from “El Chapo”

  

  United States prosecutors alleged on Wednesday that convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán personally gave US$1 million in bribes to the brother of Honduras' president to pass on to the Central American leader, who swiftly denied wrongdoing.

• Tuesday, May 16th 2017 - 07:28 UTC

  Mexican leading investigative journalist in combating drug traffickers is shot dead

  

  Award-winning Mexican journalist Javier Valdez has been shot dead in the north-western state of Sinaloa. He was killed when unidentified attackers opened fire on his car in the city of Culiacan where Valdez was working, the RioDoce website reports.

• Friday, January 20th 2017 - 20:05 UTC

  Extradited drug lord El Chapo to face Brooklyn court on Friday

  

  Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug lord who was recaptured last year after six months on the run, arrived in the U.S. Thursday night just hours after the Mexican attorney general's office confirmed he was being extradited to the United States, the Department of Justice announced.

• Saturday, January 9th 2016 - 07:20 UTC

  Mexican marines recapture drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán

  

  Mexican authorities recaptured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in a bloody raid on Friday. “Mission Accomplished,” President Enrique Peña Nieto announced via Twitter. “We have him” in reference to the recapture of one of the world's most notorious and slippery criminals.

• Friday, November 6th 2015 - 08:28 UTC

  Panama dismantles drug network linking FARC with Mexican cartel

  

  Panamanian officials announced the dismantling of a drug network linking fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman's Sinaloa cartel and a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, front.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2015 - 06:37 UTC

  Mexico is offering 3.8 million dollars reward for the capture of drug lord “Chapo Guzmán”

  

  Mexico is offering a reward of 60 million pesos ($3.8m) for the capture of the country's most-wanted drug lord, who escaped from a top security prison. A huge manhunt is underway for Joaquin Guzman, who got out of his cell on Saturday through a 1.5km-long tunnel.