Mexican cartel kingpin 'El Chapo' Guzman found guilty in New York trial

Read more: The rise and fall of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, the world's most ambitious drug lord The narcos and law-enforcement officials who took the stand during the trial revealed a litany of sordid details about the Sinaloa cartel's operations and the violent, decadent, and sometimes perverse proclivities of Guzman, 61, who is believed to have been the organization's main leader for much of the past two decades. Read more: After a year of record homicides, here's what to expect from Mexico's cartels in 2019 Damaso Lopez Nuñez, a Mexican security official who became Guzman's right-hand man before clashing with Guzman's sons for control of the cartel, testified that Coronel was the main intermediary during the planning of Guzman's second jailbreak, carrying messages between the imprisoned cartel leader and plotters constructing a mile-long tunnel under his cell. But in the US, Guzman faces a life sentence, which he is likely to spend at the maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, once described by a former warden as "much worse than death." Read more: More than 40,000 people have gone missing in Mexico's drug war, and the government is trying new tactics to find them Inmates in the Administrative Maximum Facility, or ADX, are highly segregated, but the prison holds a familiar face: Osiel Cardenas Guillen, the onetime leader of the Gulf cartel who was extradited to the US in 2007 and sentenced to 25 years in 2010.