Who Protects the Drug Lords? El Chapo Points Toward the Halls of Government
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel serving a life sentence at ADX Florence in Colorado, claimed that the real power behind the international drug trade rested not simply with cartel bosses but with corrupt politicians and government officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaking through his attorney, Mariel Colón, Guzmán argued that imprisoning high-profile traffickers accomplished little when the political figures who facilitated their operations remained untouched. He suggested that American and Mexican authorities used cartel leaders as…
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