Will El Chapo's conviction change anything in the drug trade?
The nearly half a century old ‘war on drugs’ shows no sign of ending, and neither does the illegal trafficking
by Ed Vulliamy
Feb 13, 2019
4 minutes
Standing on the steps of the Brooklyn courthouse amid flurries of sleet and snow, US attorney Richard Donoghue hailed the conviction of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as a famous victory in America’s longest conflict.
“There are those who say the war on drugs is not worth fighting. Those people are wrong,” he said.
But that war – now nearly half a century old – shows no sign of ending, and neither does the trade in illegal narcotics.
In the course of Guzmán’s eleven week trial, prosecutors presented the Sinaloa Federation as a vertically-integrated organization with a clear chain of command leading all the way up to one all-powerful boss: El Chapo.
But Guzmán
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