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Trial of El Chapo Begins Today:  Jury selection began Monday in New York for the trial of drug cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.  Sonja Sharp of the Los Angeles Times reports that Guzman was extradited from Mexico to the U.S. for trial last year.  He had twice escaped from Mexican prisons.  Guzman built the Sinaloa cartel into "the largest drug trafficking organization in the world," according to the Justice Department indictment.  While his defense attorneys are portraying him as a hero, prosecutors plan to introduce hundreds of thousands of documents confirming his multi-billion dollar operation which smuggled huge volumes of cocaine, heroin, meth, and fentanyl across U.S. borders.  Jurors selected for the massive prosecution may not be able to deliver a verdict until Valentine's Day.  Over the past year "El Chapo" has made several complaints about his housing conditions in federal prison.    

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