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    The El Chapo trial's most shocking and bizarre moments

    As the jury begins deliberations, we recap three months of amazing stories and allegations
    by Luke O'Neil Feb 04, 2019 3 minutes
    Court drawing of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán with a handgun on display during a testimony by the DEA. Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

    Until his trial began, much of the public perception of accused Mexican drug lord El Chapo, real name Joaquín Guzmán, had come from rumours and legend. But over the past three months we have heard what the lead prosecutor, Andrea Goldbarg, called “a mountain of evidence” against the notorious leader of the Sinaloa cartel, including allegations of decades of murder, torture, bribery and corruption.

    The stories from the trial have ranged from the horrifying to the downright bizarre; these are some of the most astonishing.

    Live burial

    Among the many violent he saw Guzmán commit. Valdez Ríos told the court of two occasions in which he witnessed Guzmán torture and murder members of a rival drug cartel. In one case in 2006 he is said to have instructed his men to dig a hole for a man they had been holding prisoner before shooting him. The victim was thrown in the ground still gasping for air and buried alive.

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