El Chapo Trial
Game Over: El Chapo’s Final Escape Plan Just Failed
The former drug kingpin tried to use VICE News reporting to appeal his life sentence. Here's how that went.
El Chapo’s Appeal Hinges on a Story by VICE News
A lawyer for the imprisoned kingpin cited our interview with an anonymous juror while arguing to have his conviction overturned.
El Chapo found guilty, faces life in a U.S. prison
The anonymous jury convicted the kingpin on all 10 counts related to his drug smuggling empire.
The strange, terrifying tale of the mistress who flipped on El Chapo
Was Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez a victim, a criminal, or both?
Mexican president AMLO linked to new corruption allegation in El Chapo trial
A former campaign official from Andrés Manuel López Obrador's failed bid for president in 2006 is accused of taking a bribe from a Sinaloa cartel leader.
How the FBI hacked El Chapo’s encrypted phone network
The Sinaloa cartel’s IT guy was also working for the bureau.
Twin brothers from Chicago secretly taped El Chapo. One just testified against him.
“He gave me a hug and told me he’d met Chapo Guzmán.”
El Chapo got wiretapped because the cartel’s IT guy screwed up
“Don Jorge, your… your… your brother is very upset with me because he says that it’s my fault that there’s no communication.”
Prosecutors don’t want El Chapo’s jury to hear how the U.S. government sent guns to the Sinaloa cartel
Operation Fast and Furious was an epic fail.
El Chapo’s trial is revealing the futility of the war on drugs
The kingpins keep getting killed or captured, and the drug shipments keep getting busted. But nothing changes.
Felipe Calderón has no regrets about his bloody war against Mexico’s cartels
We spoke with the former Mexican president about El Chapo, the drug war, and killing kingpins.
Explosive testimony at El Chapo’s trial tells new history of the Sinaloa cartel
The brother of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada testified about a pair of high-profile murders and El Chapo's first prison break.