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| El Chapo trial: Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán gets life in prison | |
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| A US judge has sentenced Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to life in prison plus 30 years. | A US judge has sentenced Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to life in prison plus 30 years. |
| Guzmán, 62, was found guilty of 10 charges, including drug trafficking and money laundering, by a federal court in New York in February. | |
| He escaped a Mexican jail through a tunnel in 2016, but was later arrested. He was extradited to the US in 2017. | He escaped a Mexican jail through a tunnel in 2016, but was later arrested. He was extradited to the US in 2017. |
| He is a former head of the Sinaloa cartel, which officials say was the biggest supplier of drugs to the US. | He is a former head of the Sinaloa cartel, which officials say was the biggest supplier of drugs to the US. |
| During the trial, witnesses said he had tortured his cartel's enemies. | |
| Speaking through an interpreter just before Wednesday's sentencing, Guzmán said in the Brooklyn courtroom his confinement in the US had amounted to "psychological, emotional, mental torture 24 hours a day". | |
| He also said he had received an unfair trial, accusing jurors of misconduct. | |
| The life sentence was the minimum Guzmán faced. The additional 30 years were for unlawful uses of firearms. | |
| Prosecutors said Guzmán would be serving his sentence behind "tonnes of steel", referring to a high-security prison in Colorado. | |
| It was not immediately clear if Guzmán would appeal against the verdict. |