By AFPMore by this AuthorNEW YORK,Accused Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is an "excellent father, friend, brother, son and partner," his young wife said as his landmark trial in New York wound up. In his almost three-month-long trial, Mr Guzman, the 69-year-old former head of the Sinaloa drugs cartel known widely as El Chapo, or Shorty, was accused of smuggling hundreds of tons of drugs into the United States over the past quarter-century. NO SHAMEDuring the trial the prosecution played a recording of a phone call between Ms Coronel and Mr Guzman, in which she passed the telephone to her father. Mr Guzman then informed his father-in-law about an illicit drugs shipment into the US. "My name was often mentioned and called into question," admitted Ms Coronel, a tall Mexican-American woman with long dark hair, with whom Mr Guzman has two daughters.

Source: Daily Nation February 02, 2019 05:03 UTC