He has “El Licenciado”, ex-partner of “El Chapo”, audience in the US; seeks to reduce sentence

Dámaso López, Graduate, exsocio of Joaquin El Chapo GuzmanHe had a closed-door hearing this Friday in the Alexandria Division of the Federal Court of the Eastern District of Virginia, in which he would be asked to reduce his sentence for collaborating with the US authorities.

The journalist Alan Feuer denounced the “discretion” of the administration for closing the hearing and reported that the decrease in the penalty would be for the role of Lopez in the trial against El Chapo.

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With the third and final detention of Guzmán Loera in 2016, a fight for control of the Sinaloa Cartel, which was deactivated with the imprisonment of Dámaso López and his son, Dámaso López Serrano. The first was captured by Mexico and the second was given voluntarily to the US authorities.

López Núñez was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 2019, on charges of cocaine racking To the United States.

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