We weren’t allowed to bring in telephones or computers, so I covered the trial the old-fashioned, noble way, with only paper and pen. There were countless early mornings in the frigid New York winters when I had to spend hours in line, waiting to get into Judge Brian Cogan’s courtroom on the eighth floor of Brooklyn’s federal court building. But that of El Chapo has been the most surreal and exhausting. I have covered other of trials in New York - from the nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who were convicted of drug trafficking, to corruption within the football governing body FIFA.
A poster with the face of Mexican drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, reading Wanted, Again, is displayed at a newsstand in one Mexico City's major bus terminals on July 13, 2015, a day after he escaped from a maximum-security prison.
