Bitter Sinaloa residents lament likely life sentence for ‘El Chapo’
Wednesday 17
9:21
2019
CULIACÁN: As Sinaloa’s most notorious son Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman faces sentencing in the United States, residents of the Mexican state sounded a bitter chorus at the prospect of the capo — feared and revered here in equal measure — spending his life behind bars. They point to the fact that since the arrest of Guzman — the now-former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, which was founded in the 1980s — neither violence nor drug-trafficking have abated. Moreover, in Sinaloa, it is widely believed that he and his fugitive partner Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada paved roads, built schools and ...
