The Latest Breaking News from El Chapo

Trevor Noah on Trump: ‘His friends could fill up an entire prison wing’

The late-night host discussed the latest Trump associate to be convicted of a crime and the former president’s claim he ‘had no clue’ about wrongdoing

The Guardian - US · Aug 19, 2022

Pound signs blind politicians to the flaws of financial titans

City Voices: David Cameron and others were far too eager to advance the bankers

Evening Standard · Jul 29, 2022

‘What do we have to protect us? Nothing’: Jail calls of Flores twins, wives discussing immunity played in court

CHICAGO — Chicago twins Pedro and Margarito Flores were in the middle of their cooperation against Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in 2010 when authorities intercepted a series of jail calls showing the brothers and their wives had growing concerns over the lack of an immunity deal from…

Chicago Tribune · Jul 26, 2022

Drug lord El Chapo moans he's being mistreated in US prison and has 'no human contact'

El Chapo has been held in a maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, but in an astonishing rant, he claims his treatment there is unfair

Daily Mirror · May 25, 2022

British Virgin Islands Premier arrested as drug agents pose as El Chapo cartel members

Andrew Fahie was detained in Miami on Thursday morning after being caught in a sting operation by the US Drug Enforcement Agency in Miami dressed as cartel members

Daily Mirror · Apr 28, 2022

Cocaine seizures soar in Chicago, surrounding states, as DEA ‘snow’ forecast comes true

Heroin and marijuana have long been Mexican cartels’ big moneymakers in Chicago. But DEA cocaine seizures rose 50% in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana in the year ending Sept. 30 and keep rising in the Chicago area.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 22, 2022

Sister-in-law of twins who turned against ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty for helping spend drug money

An indictment filed in June 2021 alleged the wives of Pedro and Margarito Flores helped stash away hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug money over a dozen years, starting with their husbands’ surrender in December 2008.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 24, 2022

Brother of Chicago twins who helped take down 'El Chapo' admits to burying millions in drug proceeds under porch

CHICAGO — Chicago twins Pedro and Margarito Flores were just 16 when their older brother Armando was arrested in the late 1990s for selling narcotics out of a Cicero auto dealership.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 18, 2022

Brother of Chicago’s Flores twins who helped bring down El Chapo admits hiding millions for them

Armando Flores, whose brothers Pedro Flores and Margarito Flores once were Chicago’s drug kingpins, stashed it under his porch in Texas for them after they surrendered in 2008.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 17, 2022

The real-life ‘Narcos’ agents on the hunt for drug lord Pablo Escobar, the Netflix series and Chicago’s place in drug trafficking

Retired DEA agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña say Netflix took some liberties. But Peña acknowledges unwittingly working with a death-squad leader to locate Escobar.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 2, 2022