Cartel kingpin El Chapo is jailed for life, but the US-Mexico drug trade is booming

by Luis Gómez Romero,  University of Wollongong

The infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera — aka “El Chapo” — has been sentenced to life plus an additional 30 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy, money laundering and weapons charges, among other crimes committed over the past quarter-century as head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, the Western Hemisphere’s most powerful organized crime syndicate.