A Canadian truck company owner accused of smuggling drugs for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman charged the Mexican kingpin and his cronies US$155,000 to move two cocaine loads from the U.S. into Canada, court documents allege. Alex had lived for long periods with El Chapo in the Mexican mountains, starting in 2007. He told how, with El Chapo and Jorge Milton, he sourced huge loads of cocaine in Colombia and Ecuador, shipping them north. Mazatlán is a stronghold of Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel; El Chapo was captured there in 2014 before escaping from prison the following year. The murder never materialized, though, because Alex and El Chapo were separately captured in Mexico.

Source: National Post March 29, 2019 10:52 UTC