U.S. judge blasts drug lord El Chapo's 'overwhelming evil,' imposes life sentence

11:47am PDT - July 17th, 2019    el chapo - Reuters

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Mexican drug lord who twice escaped maximum-security prisons in that country, will spend the rest of his life in a U.S. penitentiary, a federal judge said on Wednesday after accusing him of "overwhelming evil."