He’s one of the most notorious drug traffickers in history, who once chillingly claimed to have killed between 2,000 and 3,000 people.
When Joaquín ‘El Chapo‘ Guzmán, the infamous Sinaloa Cartel leader, stepped into a New York courtroom in 2017, US federal agent Eric Balliet had a certain idea of what he might be like.
‘This was the second most wanted man on the planet at the time behind Osama bin Laden, so I was expecting him to resemble some kind of criminal genius,’ he recalls.
‘But he looked like any average, middle-aged Hispanic man. He seemed kind of awkward and gave a
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