US agent: Mexican police excluded from 2014 El Chapo manhunt

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. agent testified Wednesday that Mexican police were purposely kept in the dark about secret efforts in 2014 to hunt down notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman because they couldn’t be trusted.
Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Victor Vasquez told a jury in Guzman’s trial that he was the American liason for an operation to try to capture the top leadership of the Sinaloa cartel. He demanded only Mexican marines on his team because he