U.S. trial witness says he watched 'El Chapo' murder three people
Brendan Pierson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former bodyguard for accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo†Guzman testified at Guzman’s U.S. trial on Thursday that he watched his boss personally carry out three gruesome murders of rival drug cartel members.
The killings described by Isaias Valdez Rios in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, were the first in the three-month-old trial to be attributed to Guzman himself, rather than underlings following his orders.
Guzman, 61, was extradited to the United States in 2017 and has been on trial since November on charges of trafficking vast amounts of cocaine, heroin and other drugs into the country as leader of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel. His lawyers have claimed he was framed by another powerful drug trafficker, Ismael “El Mayo†Zambada.
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Put him away for good. One of the killings was starkly sadistic.
