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<h6><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Photo: Eduardo Verdugo/AP</i></span><br />
<b>Soldiers escort Joaquín &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzmán Loera, the head of Mexico&#8217;s Sinaloa cartel, to a helicopter after his arrest, Feb. 22, 2014. Guzmán, the most notorious drug lord in the hemisphere, has never been convicted for drug trafficking</b></h6>
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<h6 class="content-list-component text"><span style="color:#1f0202;"><strong> In 20 years of prosecution</strong></span><br />
<span style="color:#1f0202;"><strong> &#8216;Attorney&#8217;s for Joaquín &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzmán Loera, the head of Mexico&#8217;s Sinaloa cartel, have succeeded in dismissing or overturning some 20 charges for crimes including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping and drug trafficking. &#8216;</strong></span></h6>
<p><span style="color:#999999;"><em><strong>&#8211; &#8216;The cases have unraveled either because of a lack of evidence or because the defense exploited procedural errors committed by Mexican law enforcement.&#8217;</strong> </em></span></p>
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<p>More than two decades after first locking up one of the most powerful organized crime bosses in a maximum security prison, Mexican authorities have<a href="http://konnie-moments.blogspot.com/2016/02/Joaquin-El-Chapo-Guzman-trying-to-bribe-officers-who-arrested-him.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> yet to convict recently recaptured Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera </a>for the crime of drug trafficking, according to a new report that highlights the Mexican government&#8217;s difficulties with prosecuting the drug lord.<br />
<span style="font-weight:400;">Despite Guzmán&#8217;s notoriety as one of the leaders of the largest drug-trafficking empire in the Americas, Mexican authorities have only convicted him for three less serious offenses, according to court records </span><a href="http://www.proceso.com.mx/431703/justicia-burlada-por-el-chapo"><span style="font-weight:400;">obtained by the Mexican magazine Proceso</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. Moreover, prosecutors have repeatedly seen their cases against Guzmán fall apart. </span><br />
<span style="font-weight:400;">Guzmán’s lawyers have succeeded in dismissing or overturning some 20 charges for crimes including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping and drug trafficking, the report says. The cases have unraveled either because of a lack of evidence or because the defense exploited procedural errors committed by Mexican law enforcement.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight:400;">The Mexican government has brought dozens of criminal charges against Guzmán since the 1990s. But there have also been years-long lulls when authorities appeared to show little interest in going after the drug lord, the report says. </span><br />
<span style="font-weight:400;">Authorities’ spotty record in securing convictions for Guzmán contrasts sharply with the confidence expressed by former Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam. Last year, Murillo Karam said he would only extradite Guzmán to the United States once he&#8217;d had finished serving sentences for crimes committed in Mexico, something Murillo Karam bragged would take &#8220;</span><span style="font-weight:400;">300 or 400 years.&#8221;</span></p>
<h6><span style="font-weight:400;"><span class="share-bar-image-wrapper"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-178775" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/former-mexican-attorney-general-jesc3bas-murillo-karam1.jpg" alt="Former Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam1" width="920" height="563" /><br />
<b>Former Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam said last year he expected Guzmán&#8217;s sentence to reach &#8220;300 or 400 years.&#8221; But Mexican authorities have repeatedly seen their cases against &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; come undone</b>. </span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"><span class="share-bar-image-wrapper"> </span> </span></h6>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">That prediction was premature. For the moment, Guzmán is only serving the remainder of the sentencing he received in the 1990s for organized crime charges, before he broke out of prison the first time in 2001. He is serving </span><a href="http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/01/18/el-chapo-guzman-una-decada-de-la-fuga-del-mayor-narco-mexicano"><span style="font-weight:400;">those sentences consecutively</span></a>.<br />
<span style="font-weight:400;">One of the sentences was originally for 12 years, but was reduced to seven. Another organized crime conviction carried a six-year sentence, while a third conviction for the same offense along with bribery added seven years and nine months to his jail time, for a total of 20 years and nine months.<br />
</span><span style="font-weight:400;">Guzmán currently faces 10 other charges, including charges of drug trafficking, according to his attorney José Refugio Rodríguez.<br />
</span><span style="font-weight:400;">Under Mexican law, escaping from prison is </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/el-chapo-no-charges-for-breaking-out-of-jail_us_56d09a45e4b03260bf76ac8f"><span style="font-weight:400;">not considered a crime</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, so Guzmán is not expected to face additional jail time for breaking out of captivity twice.<br />
</span><span style="font-weight:400;">While U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says she hopes the Enrique Peña Nieto administration will send Guzmán to the United States soon to face drug trafficking and other charges, Mexican media reports say legal challenges could delay the process by </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/el-chapo-trial-us_us_5696a1c6e4b0b4eb759cdbbc"><span style="font-weight:400;">as long as six years</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></p>
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Mexico Has Yet To Convict ‘El Chapo’ For Drug Trafficking …In 2 Decade Of prosecutions – Convicted Of 3 Lesser Offences Only. New report
