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T he hotel room is cold, antiseptic, the only sound the gentle whisper of central air. I can’t go outside, my fixer tells me, or I might be kidnapped. From my window high up in the most expensive hotel in town, I look down at a baseball field and a …

Noted podcaster 50 Cent and investigative journalist Charlie Webster are back with the second season of their hit show, Surviving El Chapo, which tells the story of two brothers who helped bring down the notorious drug lord. The show, which premiered last year, is centered around the first-ever interviews with …

Y OU NEVER FORGET your first murderer, they say — though few cops recall the killers they caught as charitably as Vargas does. At the wheel of his seven-seat Escalade — a car that drives like an opium dream and is fancied equally by narco bosses and the retired federal …

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has announced a new podcast about the two brothers who helped bring down the notorious drug lord El Chapo. The rapper is also set to host and produce the podcast tentatively titled Cuate/twin: The Downfall of El Chapo, which 50 Cent originally envisioned as a TV …

UPDATE (1/25/22): A U.S. appeals court has upheld Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman’s conviction on multiple charges, including drug trafficking, weapons charges, and money laundering. The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued its ruling Tuesday, Jan. 25, shooting down arguments that Guzman deserved a new trial because of alleged …