Accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was interested in directing a movie about his life story as early as 2007, long before his well-known meeting with US actor Sean Penn and Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo in 2015, jurors in Guzman's US trial heard on Monday.

'El Chapo' dreamed of biopic for years before capture, says trial witness

Drug baron Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's defense told his New York trial Tuesday that his cartel bribed Mexican presidents, painting the absent co-defendant as a ruthless criminal who murdered in cold blood.

Mexican presidents accused as defense opens El Chapo trial

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman goes on trial in New York on Monday, accused of running the world's biggest drug cartel and spending a quarter of a century smuggling more than 155 tons of cocaine into the United States.

Mexican drug lord El Chapo faces biggest US drugs trial

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's cartel smuggled billions of dollars worth of cocaine across Mexico's border into the United States

Mexico drug lord 'El Chapo' pleads not guilty in US court

Sinaloa drug cartel chief's lawyer believes sending his client over to the US between now and January would be 'difficult'

Mexico aims to extradite drug lord 'El Chapo' early next year

Guzman Salazar was at a restaurant in a Mexican resort city on Monday when gunmen swooped in and kidnapped him and five others

Drug lord El Chapo's son released in Mexico, says relative

Investigators suspect the abduction took place as part of a rivalry between two drug cartels

El Chapo's son among six kidnapped in Mexico: Prosecutor

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