US officials say they have discovered the longest smuggling tunnel ever found on the border with Mexico. Stretching for 4,309ft (1,313m), the tunnel had a lift, rail track, drainage, and air ventilation systems, and high voltage electrical cables. The passageway connected an industrial site in the Mexican city of Tijuana …
Read More »Drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán gets life in prison.
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 …
Read More »Guatemalan presidential candidate held over ‘drug plot’.
A Guatemalan presidential candidate has been arrested in the US city of Miami on suspicion of conspiring to import cocaine to the United States. US investigators say center-right candidate Mario Estrada, 58, was seeking more than $10m (£7.7m) from the Sinaloa cartel in exchange for helping the powerful Mexican criminal …
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