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"El Chapo" in blue uniform stands near police.

‘El Chapo’ trial puts drug lord’s love life, business dealings on full display

Justice

Guzmán, 61, was charged and found guilty on all 10 criminal counts, including drug trafficking and engaging in a criminal enterprise as leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel. He faces life in prison.

Three police stand inside the courthouse in Brooklyn

Drug lord ‘El Chapo’ from Mexico begins his trial in the US

Justice
A screenshot from Servando "La Tuta" Gomez's 2014 interview with England's Channel 4 News.

Mexico captures its most-wanted drug lord, but Mexicans are still angry

Justice
Members of a band record a narcocorrido in downtown Culiacan, Mexico.

Mexico’s ‘narco state’ gets a cultural boost from new, more gory pop ballads

Music

The capture of Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ may help Mexico clean house

Conflict & Justice
Colombian newspapers and magazines from December 1993 on the death of druglord Pablo Escobar. Yolanda Perdomo saved them from that time.

In the land of Capone, Colombian immigrants struggle to imagine kingpin Pablo Escobar as a tourist draw

Business, Economics and Jobs

Al Capone is a big tourist attraction in Chicago. He’s on tours, trinkets and t-shirts. So what do Colombian immigrants make of the prospect of their public enemy number one, Pablo Escobar, becoming a tourist industry?

Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers

Arts, Culture & Media

Mexican investigative journalist Anabel Hernández has looked inside her country’s drug war. She talks with Marco Werman about the threats on her life, and the new English translation of her book, “Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers.”

Wife of powerful Mexican drug lord gives birth in US

One of Mexico’s most wanted men and head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s wife recently gave birth in California.

Close Encounters with Mexico’s Drug Lords; A Reporter’s Memoir

Arts, Culture & Media

A death threat from one of Mexico’s most powerful drug lords wasn’t enough to make Dallas Morning News Correspondent Alfredo Corchado back down on his efforts to expose the dealings of the narco-trafficantes.

Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Replaces Al Capone as Chicago’s Public Enemy No. 1

Conflict & Justice

How did Mexican drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman become Chicago’s Public Enemy Number One? Anchor, Carol Hills talks with AP’s legal reporter Michael Tarm in Chicago.