Will El Chapo's conviction change anything in the drug trade?
The nearly half a century old ‘war on drugs’ shows no sign of ending, and neither does the illegal trafficking
Standing on the steps of the Brooklyn courthouse amid flurries of sleet and snow, US attorney Richard Donoghue hailed the conviction of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as a famous victory in America’s longest conflict.
“There are those who say the war on drugs is not worth fighting. Those people are wrong,” he said.
But that war – now nearly half a century old – shows no sign of ending, and neither does the trade in illegal narcotics.
In the course of Guzmán’s eleven week trial, prosecutors presented the Sinaloa Federation as a vertically-integrated organization with a clear chain of command leading all the way up to one all-powerful boss: El Chapo.
But Guzmán
