El Chapo ‘buried man alive and wanted to give his daughter an AK-47’
El Chapo ‘buried a man alive after shooting him’ and wanted to give his own “fearless” daughter an AK-47′ so that he could ‘hang’ with her
- Among witnesses on Thursday was drug dealer Isaias Valdez Rios
- He said he saw EL Chapo order his men to dig a hole before he shot the unnamed victim
- The man was then tossed in the hole and covered with dirt while he was still breathing
- Other pieces of evidence to emerge were texts between the defendant and his wife
- In them, they discussed their ‘fearless’ daughter ‘Kiki’ and how El Chapo wanted to get her a gun
- While in hiding in the Sinaloa mountains, the drug king pin used to wake at noon
- He would then take phone calls and pace under the trees while being watched over by security guards
Witnesses at El Chapo’s Brooklyn trial told on Thursday how one of his victims was once buried alive after being shot while other pieces of evidence laid bare private conversations he had with his wife about their two daughters.
Drug dealer Isaias Valdez Rios testified Thursday at a New York trial that he witnessed the drug king pin, whose real name is, Joaquin Guzman order his men to dig a hole before he shot the victim.
He said the man was still gasping for air when he was dropped in the hole and buried.
Valdez also claims Guzman executed two other kidnapping victims whose bodies were incinerated. He says the three killings occurred around 2006.
The grisly testimony was the most detailed account to date of the cartel boss personally engaging in violence against enemies.
In a court sketch from Thursday’s proceedings, El Chapo listens as Assistant US Attorney Amanda Liskamm questions witness Damaso Lopez Nunez
Guzman faces life in prison if convicted of drug-trafficking charges. His lawyers say he’s being framed by government cooperators.
Elsewhere, witnesses described how he started his day while in hiding from police by waking up at noon and taking phone calls while he strolled beneath trees.
Other pieces of evidence included text messages he exchanged with his wife about their two daughters including one where he joked about giving one of the girls an assault rifle.
‘Our Kiki is fearless,’ he said of one of his daughters to wife Emma Coronel Aispuro, who has attended his trial throughout to support him.
‘I’m going to give her an AK-47 so she can hang with me,’ he added of the child.
Other women came to visit him while he was in hiding, according to his associates, and some facilitated drug deals.
One was Lucero Sanchez Lopez, a former Mexican lawmaker. She told jurors she once had a romantic relationship with Guzman, who sent her to buy and ship marijuana.
In another sketch, El Chapo’s wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, is shown sitting behind him as John Paul Osborne is questioned on the stand
‘I didn’t want for him to mistrust me because I thought he could also hurt me.
‘I was confused about my own feelings over him. Sometimes I loved him and sometimes I didn’t,’ she said.
In other messages to his wife, he told her to ‘live a normal life’ when she felt as though she was in danger.
On Wednesday, it was claimed that his sons murdered a journalist well known for his coverage of drug cartels.
Damaso Lopez Nunez, a former top lieutenant to Guzman, made the accusation in Brooklyn federal court under cross examination by one of Guzman’s lawyers.
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The lawyer, Eduardo Balarezo, had asked Lopez whether his own son, Damaso Lopez Serrano, might have been involved in the May 2017 murder of Javier Valdez.
Valdez, known for his signature straw hat, was the founder of the RioDoce online newspaper and author of the book Narcoreporting about the dangers faced by journalists covering Mexico’s drug war. His murder provoked public outcry about cartel violence.
RioDoce reported last year that Lopez Serrano was likely behind the killing.
Lopez said neither he nor his son had anything to do with Valdez’s murder. He testified that Guzman’s sons killed Valdez for publishing an article about drug cartel infighting against their wishes.
El Chapo’s wife is shown leaving his trial on Wednesday, January 23. She has been accused of helping him escape from prison in Mexico
Guzman, 61, was extradited to the United States in 2017 and has been on trial since November on charges of trafficking cocaine, heroin and other drugs into the country as leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
His lawyers have claimed he was framed by another powerful drug trafficker, Ismael El Mayo Zambada.
Acccording to media reports, Guzman has fathered as many as 15 children. Lopez did not say which sons murdered Valdez, but he previously testified that four – Ivan, Alfredo, Ovidio and Joaquin – were involved in the cartel.
Lopez, 52, is serving a life sentence in U.S. prison for drug trafficking and has said he is cooperating with prosecutors in the hope of getting the sentence reduced. He has testified that he began working for Guzman in 2001 and is godfather to one of his former boss’ twin daughters.
Mexican journalist Javier Valdez was an AFP stringer and co-founder of the weekly Riodoce de Sinaloa. Witnesses say El Chapo’s sons killed him
Earlier on Wednesday, Lopez testified that Guzman’s wife, Emma Coronel, played a key role in plotting her husband’s 2015 escape from a Mexican prison and tried to help him escape again after he was recaptured the following year.
Lopez told jurors that while Guzman was held in Mexico’s Altiplano prison in 2014 and 2015, he plotted his boss’ escape with Coronel and Guzman’s sons, with Coronel passing messages to and from Guzman.
Lopez said the sons bought a plot of land near the prison from which to tunnel into Guzman’s cell. Guzman escaped through the finished tunnel in 2015.
Guzman was recaptured in January 2016. Lopez said Coronel told him the following month that Guzman, then at Altiplano, wanted to duplicate his earlier escape.
That plan was thwarted when Guzman was moved to another prison in Ciudad Juarez, Lopez said, and a $2 million bribe to a national prison official to get him moved back was unsuccessful. Lopez did not identify the bribed official.
Coronel has never been charged with a crime.
When Lopez first stepped up to the witness stand on Tuesday, he looked at Guzman and bumped his fist to his chest. Asked by one of Guzman’s lawyers on cross-examination Wednesday why he made the gesture, Lopez answered, ‘Because I love him.’
Nonetheless, Lopez said, ‘the circumstances’ compelled him to testify.
I chose to think about my family,’ he said.
Guzman’s lawyers say he is the victim of a set up and that he is being framed by the cartel’s true leader.
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