While attention focuses on a mafia boss on trial in Brooklyn, the billionaire heads a power elite preserving inequality in Mexico
Every weekday morning at seven o’clock, a dozen or so reporters line up outside the federal courthouse in Brooklyn to assure themselves a seat at the trial of JoaquÃn Guzmán, the Sinaloa cartel boss. Articles have touted the many garish revelations that have emerged, including Guzmán’s private zoo, his use of a diamond-encrusted pistol, his smuggling tunnels underneath the US–Mexico border, the huge bribes paid to officials, and the murder of a cartel leader’s brother who refused to shake his hand.
“How Many Gory Details Can One Jury Take?” asked a headline in the New York Times, which has supplied its readers a steady stream. Vice News is offering an eight-part podcast, Chapo: Kingpin on Trial, based on years of reporting on the people “affected by El Chapo’s rise and fall”.
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