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Feb 2019
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Chapo convicted, but drug trade still th...

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Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán, better known as El Chapo, was convicted in an American court and will spend the rest of his life in jail, without possibility of parole. But the Sinaloa Cartel he co-founded and led for decades still thrives, as do other drug cartels in Mexico. Will El Chapo’s conviction slow the drug trade, or will it be business as usual? Plus, learn the English phrase “a slew of.”

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