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Mexican drug lord El Chapo faces life sentence in jail after US court ruling

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Mexican drug lord El Chapo faces life sentence in jail after US court ruling

Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman now faces a possible sentence of life in prison after a US court found him guilty of running a criminal enterprise.

The verdict was decided upon by Jurors in a federal court in Brooklyn following an 11-week trial of Guzman, 61, who was convicted on all 10 criminal charges he was tried for.

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US prosecutors said he had amassed a $14bn fortune through bribery, murder and drug smuggling before he was extradited to the United States for trial in 2017 after he was arrested in Mexico the year before.

Though other high-ranking cartel figures had been extradited previously, Guzman was the first to go to trial instead of pleading guilty.

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