`Money. Drugs. Murder. A vast, global narcotics-trafficking empire.` Opening statements begin in the trial of `El Chapo` Guzman
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Federal prosecutors opened their case against Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin `El Chapo` Guzman on Tuesday, promising to rewrite an epic that has been dramatized for decades - in television series, novels and ballads known as narcocorridos. `Money. Drugs. Murder. A vast, global narcotics-trafficking...