$100m: 100 millions of dollars
Bribe: If one person bribes another, they give them a
bribe. A bribe is a sum of money or something valuable that one person offers
or gives to another in order to persuade him or her to do something.
Alex
Cifuentes, a close associate of the cartel chief, testified that he told US
authorities about the alleged bribe in 2016
Alleged: An alleged fact has been stated but has not been
proved to be true. (suposat, supuesto)
Guardian
staff and agencies
Tue 15 Jan
2019 22.04 GMT
Alex Cifuentes, who has said he was a close
associate of the Sinaloa cartel chief for years, discussed
the alleged bribe under cross-examination by
one of Guzman’s lawyers in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday. Asked if he told
authorities in 2016 that Guzmán arranged the bribe, he answered: “That’s
right.”
Discuss
[dɪskʌs ]: If you discuss something, you write or talk about it in detail, talk
over, explain…
Cross-examination: When a lawyer cross-examines
someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence
that they have already given.
Peña Nieto was president of Mexico from
December 2012 until November 2018. He previously served as governor of the
state of Mexico.
The former president made no immediate comment
on the allegation. His former spokesman and other former officials did not
immediately respond to messages requesting comment.
Guzmán, 61, has been on trial in federal court
in Brooklyn since November. He was extradited to the United States in 2017 to
face charges of trafficking cocaine, heroin and other drugs into the country as
leader of the cartel.
At the start of the trial in November, defence attorney Jeffrey Lichtman alleged on behalf of
his client that that Mexican officials – including Peña Nieto and his
predecessor – had received bribes to protect Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, another
reputed trafficker who is still at large.
Attorney: In the United States, an
attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
On
behalf of: Speaking for; representing
At
large: If you
say that a dangerous person, thing, or animal is at large, you mean that they
have not been captured or made safe.
At the time, a spokesman for Peña Nieto called
the allegation “false and defamatory”, while his predecessor Felipe Calderón
tweeted that the remarks were “absolutely false and reckless”.
Reckless: Not regarding consequences;
headlong and irresponsible; rash
The judge in the case, Brian Cogan admonished
Lichtman for having gone “far afield of direct
or circumstantial proof”. He said he would instruct the jury to focus on the
evidence.
Far
afield: A long
way away. In general, it’s said “from far afield”. If someone comes from far
afield, they come from a long way away.
At the end of the first week of trial, Guzmán’s
lawyers told the judge that a witness would describe a payment to an “incumbent” Mexican president.
Incumbent: An incumbent is someone who
holds an official post at a particular time.
He was stopped from doing so by a prosecutors’ motion, upheld by Judge
Cogan, “protecting individuals and entities who are not parties to this case
and who would face embarrassment”.
Prosecutor
[prɒsɪkjuːtəʳ]: In some countries, a prosecutor is a lawyer or official who brings
charges against someone or tries to prove in a trial that they are guilty.
Uphold
upheld upheld: If you uphold something such as a law, a principle, or a decision, you
support and maintain it.
From Wikipedia:
The Guadalajara Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de
Guadalajara) was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the 1980s by Rafael
Caro Quintero, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in
order to ship cocaine and marijuana to the United States. Among the first of
the Mexican drug trafficking groups to work with the Colombian cocaine mafias,
the Guadalajara cartel prospered from the cocaine trade.
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