Tom Shakeshaft Talks to Patrick Radden Keefe About the Star Witnesses Against El Chapo
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🗓️ 18 January 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Before Sean Penn caught up with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Flores twins helped lead authorities to the drug kingpin. Here's how that bust went down.
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| 1:21.3 | Patrick Keefe talks with a former assistant U.S. attorney, Tom Shakeshap, about twin brothers and former drug traffickers who may be star witnesses in the case against the infamous Mexican |
| 1:26.2 | cartel boss known as El Chapo. |
| 1:29.2 | So it looks like the U.S. may finally extradite the drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman Luera El Chapo. |
| 1:37.0 | El Chapo was taken into custody in Mexico after a prison escape, a second prison escape. |
| 1:42.2 | That was just a gigantic embarrassment for Mexico's president. |
| 1:46.7 | Now, one of the reasons the U.S. government wants El Chapo to stand trial here is that U.S. |
| 1:52.1 | attorneys have a couple of star witnesses to testify against him. They're Americans, former drug |
| 1:57.9 | dealers who worked with the Sinaloa cartel and then became federal informants. |
| 2:03.7 | Patrick Keefe has covered the drug war for years. |
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