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Where are the witnesses who testified against Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán?

They were three of the main witnesses who helped U.S. authorities to jail “El Chapo” Guzmán for life

Mexican authorities extradited the Mexican drug lord to the U.S. in 2017 - Photo: Courtesy of the DEA
16/02/2020 |12:44Manuel Espino |
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According to the (BOP), Jesús “El Rey” Zambada García and Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez aka “La chapodiputada ” are no longer in BOP custody. Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa has been released from prison. All of them were witnesses and testified against ,

According to journalist Alan Feuer, the criminals are no longer in prison custody but their whereabouts are unknown since their cases are sealed. However, there are several possible explanations for their status, one of them is that they have joined a witness protection program or that they are out of prison custody in order to testify at another trial .

Jesús “El Rey” Zambada García

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During the trial agains t “El Chapo” Guzmán , one of the former Sinaloa Cartel leaders, Zambada García, the brother of “El Mayo” Zambada who perhaps the most powerful drug lord in Mexico and the world, said that the drug cartel and its former allies, the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, paid around USD $50 million to , a former Mexican Security Minister, who was arrested in Texas in late 2019.

Where are the witnesses who testified against Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán?

According to , he personally delivered USD $8 million to García Luna, who worked as Mexico’s top security official during the administration led by Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.

“El Rey” Zambada

worked for the Sinaloa Cartel from the 80s and until 2008 when he was arrested.

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Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez

is a former local lawmaker from Sinaloa . She testified in the trial against " El Chapo" in New York, she was accused of using fake documents to access the Altiplano maximum - security prison to visit the drug lord , with whom she allegedly had an affair.

Where are the witnesses who testified against Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán?

was arrested when she tried to cross to San Diego, California. U.S. authorities accused her of conspiring to traffic cocaine .

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Jorge Milton Cifuentes

, one of the drug lord’s operators in Colombia was released from prison in December 2019. after testifying against the Mexican drug trafficker.

Where are the witnesses who testified against Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán?

According to the U.S. government, he was the head of the Drug Trafficking Organization, which operates in Colombia , Ecuador , Panama , Mexico , and Spain . Cifuentes-Villa is allegedly responsible for financing and coordinating multi-ton cocaine shipments via speedboats, fishing vessels, and airplanes to the United States via Ecuador and Mexico . His drug trafficking organization was the primary source of supply of cocaine for the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico.

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