translated from Spanish: Starts the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Monday 5 November

photography / Internet United States.-the next Monday 5 November begins the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in Brooklyn, New York, in a federal court in which, for three to five months, some of the secrets of the Mexican drug trade is ventilarán.
According to the newspaper Vanguardia, at 7 in the morning of that day, “El Chapo” will leave his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan to cross the Brooklyn Bridge in a convoy of armoured trucks, under surveillance from the air by helicopters. It will take helmet and vest bulletproof; you will be protected by several snipers stationed in strategic buildings along the three kilometres that separate federal court jail.
It will be at the courthouse Theodore Roosevelt where the Attorney of the Eastern District of New York, Richard P. Donoghue, and advocates of the drug trafficker, Eduardo Balarezo and Jeffrey Lichtman, will shape the fate of Guzman Loera before Judge Brian Cogan and a jury for selecting you will remain anonymous throughout the trial.
This is the judicial process of higher-profile linked to drug trafficking in the last decades, for this reason it is speculated an extraordinary wave of revelations.
Half a dozen legal memorandums of the prosecution of New York consulted by Bloomberg Businessweek México, explained how the Department of Justice has a record nurtured by decades of research and testimonies of some of the partners more of “El Chapo”, willing to reveal intimate details of the running of his empire, from the Presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari to Enrique Peña Nieto.
Donald P. Donoghue will seek imprisonment, accusing Guzman Loera have provoked a violent war in Mexico and killing at least 30 people directly, in addition to poison thousands of Americans.
Meanwhile, Eduardo Balarezo and Jeffrey Lichtman will make it own to convince the jury that the Mexican does not represent a big risk for society and that has been a victim of a conspiracy to introduce him as a monster.
Since Joaquín Guzmán insists on his innocence, it will be necessary to resort to witnesses, experts, documents, videos and evidence presented to the jury.
Among the protected witnesses will collaborate in the trial, is Dámaso López, “The Bachelor”, old partner of Guzman and with whom he maintains a violent confrontation.
The condemnation of “The Bachelor” – held in a Virginia State prison – could be reduced if the information provided is useful. It should be noted that it is awaiting his sentence, scheduled for late November, a few weeks after you start the trial of Guzman Loera.
As the testimony of Damaso, various preparatory documents are running must be planned a cascade of defections and betrayals of characters to which Washington has sought to convince in recent weeks to its witness protection program.
Among the evidence expected to finish venting, they are bribes public officials to allow drug shipments to pass through the region, as well as of those servers who assisted in at least four leaks of the Chapo: two of prison in 2001 and 2015, one of a RAID organised by the Federal Police in Los Cabos, in 2012, and the other in Los Mochis, in 2014.
Similarly, it shall acknowledge to the Sinaloa thirty murders, numerous abductions, several cases of torture and the direct murder of two Hitmen the Zetas “who executed with a shot to the head”.
According to Vanguard, legal memoranda indicate that throughout the career of Guzman Loera will be subjected to scrutiny: from his years in Sinaloa, when he was known as “The fast”, for its ability to mobilize packages of drugs, until his last period at liberty, after escape from the prison of the Altiplano in 2016.
The Government of the United States aims to reconstruct the rise of the Sinaloa Cartel to become one of the most powerful, with thousands of operators in 20 countries criminal.
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Information: Vanguard

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