Assinations, Torture, Kidnapping, Drug Trafficking in cans of Jalapenos: El Chapo will not have it easy

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Sinembargo article

Subject Matter: Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, El Chapo
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Assassination of Zetas at point blank, acts of torture, kidnapping and intent to import tons of cocaine in cans of jalapenos, are among the accusations that Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera will face.

Reporter: Sinembargo Redaction
on the morning of 8th of November of 1992, sicarios entered a disco-tec in Puerta Vallarta, Jalisco. Carrying weapons and seeking revenge, they fired on members of the criminal organization led by the Arellano Felix brothers.

No less than six people died in the shoot out. Chroniclers of the epoch attribute the massacre t to Joaquin Guzman Loera, a youngster known as El Chapo. A chapter in his life that follows him to his cell in New York and that could, according to Brooklyn prosecutors, soon appear on his charge sheet.

This was narrated by Alan Feuer for the New York Times, in the text " 7 tons of cocaine in cans of jalapenos: the evidence against El Chapo, where he presents the evidence that now confronts the Mexican.




The shoot out in Puerta Vallarta, occurred while Guzman was " consolidating his control of smuggling routes as a rising power in the Sinaloa cartel" and is now registered in a 90 page government memorandum submitted in the case on Tuesday.

"The memorandum was designed to list the crimes that Mr. Guzman was believed to have committed, but they were not specifically presented in his indictment. Those were legion, the note said, and included assassinations, acts of torture, kidnappings, prison detentions and an attempt to smuggle seven tons of cocaine in jalapeno cans", writes Alan.

Since Loera was sent to New York fifteen months ago, his trial has been bather in legal technicalities related to his extradition, " and in arguments about the harsh conditions of his confinement in the high security wing of Manhattan's Federal prison. " So now the detailed account goes: even with canned cola. At least that's what Alan says.

There are chapters on Archivaldo's misdeeds. In 2001 for example, Guzman ordered the capture of sicarios, alleged members of Los Zetas. Acts of torture were not carried out by him personally, but in one of the cases, "the accused shot at his rivals at point blank range and ordered his henchmen to dispose of the bodies."

In 2006, after relaxing during a lunch, he killed two members of Los Zetas, said the government, with head shots from a rifle, says Alan, from the documents to which he had access.

There are up to 40 witnesses who could provide testimony, according to the text. They will be describing the brutalities that the government included in their memorandum, but their accounts will not be the only evidence presented.

"Prosecutors wrote that they also had satellite photos of Mr Guzman and his operation, seized drug accounting books, dozens of videos, thousands of intercepted phone calls and emails, and more than 300,000 pages of documents," said Feuer.