'El Chapo's' sons killed Mexican journalist - trial witness


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Jan 2019

FILE PHOTO: An image of Javier Valdez, a murdered journalist, is pictured during a demonstration to mark International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances in Mexico City, Mexico, August 30, 2018. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sons of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman murdered a journalist well known for his coverage of drug cartels, a former associate testified at Guzman's U.S. trial on Wednesday.

Damaso Lopez Nunez, a former top lieutenant to Guzman, made the accusation in Brooklyn federal court under cross examination by one of Guzman's lawyers. The lawyer, Eduardo Balarezo, had asked Lopez whether his own son, Damaso Lopez Serrano, might have been involved in the May 2017 murder of Javier Valdez.

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