Joaquín “El Chapo” GuzmánOn February 12, 2019, he was found guilty of 10 crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment in a maximum security prison in the United States, a country to which he had been extradited years before.
For this verdict to be given, the participation and statements of other drug traffickers were necessary who over the years had a special relationship with the founder of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The US authorities, during the three months that this trial lasted, They spoke with several criminals who, in their desire to reduce their own sentences, betrayed “El Chapo”.
One of them was Dámaso López Núñez, better known as “El Licensed”, with whom Joaquín Guzmán Loera had a close friendship to the point of being one of the main people responsible for his first prison escape.
“El Licensed”, despite the friendship that united him with “El Chapo” for several decades, testified once morest the drug kingpin so that his sentence was reduced from life in prison to only 14 years in prison.
Another criminal who betrayed Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was Dámaso López Serrano, alias “El Mini Lic”son of “El Licensed” who surrendered to justice in 2017 while he was one of the main operators of the Sinaloa Cartel.
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Dámaso López Serrano decided to collaborate with US justice and testify once morest Joaquín Guzmán Loera with the condition that His sentence was reduced to 6 years in prison, the same sentence he served last year.
The brother of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada He was another of the drug traffickers who participated in the trial that “El Chapo” had in New York.
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Jesús Reynaldo “El Rey” Zambada was extradited to the US in 2012 and agreed to betray the founder of the Sinaloa Cartel because He was offered to reduce his sentence to 12 years in prison, which he served in 2020.
The other drug traffickers who betrayed “El Chapo” at his trial
- Vicente Zambada Niebla, alias “El Vicentillo”
- Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía
- Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López, “La Chapodiputada”
- Alex Cifuentes Villa
- Jorge Cifuentes Villa
- Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez
- Edgar Iván “El Negro” Galván
- Isaías Valdez Ríos
- Tirso Martínez Sánchez, alias “The Soccer Player”
- Daisy Flowers
- Pedro Flores
- Christian Rodriguez
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