Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez took millions of dollars in bribes from drug lords including jailed Mexican kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a US prosecutor alleged Wednesday.
Mexican mobster Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was found guilty Tuesday by a New York jury of crimes spanning a quarter of a century as head of one of the world's most powerful drugs gangs.
Mexican drug lord JoaquÃn "El Chapo" Guzmán has asked his lawyers to speed up his extradition to the United States out of "desperation" over being sleep-deprived in prison, his attorney said Wednesday.
Officials said the fight erupted following a dispute between leaders of two rival groups, including one led by a member of the Zetas drug cartel. The 60-year-old penitentiary houses 3,800 inmates, twice its capacity.
"I have a regret that the entire discussion about this article ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the war on drugs," Penn told "60 Minutes" correspondent Charlie Rose.
Extraditing Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán to the United States could take a year or more, a prosecutor said on Monday, three days after the former fugitive's recapture.
Mexican federal officials say marine special forces closed in on drug lord JoaquÃn "El Chapo" Guzmán in the Durango-Sinaloa mountain region last week but that he slipped away, injuring himself in the leg and face because he fell while fleeing.
Grupo Rev plans to rake in the pesos this Halloween season with its newest ensemble of latex masks and prison attire that resembles the man who for years trafficked cocaine to the United States, shipped methamphetamines to Canada and distributed ecstasy to as far off as Europe.
