President’s Drug Money – level1
The Sinaloa cartel is a drug cartel in Mexico. Between 1989 and 2014, the cartel moves 200 tons of drugs to the USA.
Joaquín Guzmán Loera was the boss of the cartel. People also call him El Chapo. He is in the USA now. He can go to prison for life. His ex-assistant talks at a court in New York. He says that El Chapo gave $100 million to Enrique Peña Nieto in 2012. Enrique Peña Nieto was the Mexican President until 2018.
Difficult words: cartel (a big criminal organisation), court (a room with lawyers who say if somebody goes to prison or not), gave (past of ‘give’).
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President’s Drug Money – level2
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, ran Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel from 1989 to 2014. People say that in those 25 years, the cartel imported more than 200 metric tons of drugs into the USA.
In 2017, El Chapo was moved to the USA where he is on trial. If he is found guilty, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. El Chapo’s business partner was in a New York court room last Tuesday. He said that El Chapo bribed the now-former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. It was a bribe of $100 million given to Nieto in 2012 when he was still running for president.
Enrique Peña Nieto stopped being president just last year, in 2018. His spokesman said that he did not take the bribe.
Difficult words: on trial (lawyers are working to say if he is guilty or not), bribe (give money to somebody to do what you want them to do), former (-ex).
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President’s Drug Money – level3
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, ran Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel from 1989 to 2014. During that time, the cartel allegedly imported more than 200 metric tons of cocaine to the US along with heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana.
In 2017, El Chapo was extradited to the USA and he has been on trial since November. If he is found guilty, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. El Chapo’s business partner told a New York court room last Tuesday that El Chapo bribed the now-former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. He said that the former president originally asked for $250 million from El Chapo, but they allegedly settled on $100 million, which he then paid to the then-president-elect in 2012.
Enrique Peña Nieto stopped being president just last year, in 2018. His spokesman said that he didn’t take the bribe.
Difficult words: allegedly (according to what some people say; it may or may not be true), extradite (hand over a criminal to a foreign country where he or she did something illegal), bribe (give money to somebody to do what you want them to do).
https://t.me/news_in_levels_video/148
The Sinaloa cartel is a drug cartel in Mexico. Between 1989 and 2014, the cartel moves 200 tons of drugs to the USA.
Joaquín Guzmán Loera was the boss of the cartel. People also call him El Chapo. He is in the USA now. He can go to prison for life. His ex-assistant talks at a court in New York. He says that El Chapo gave $100 million to Enrique Peña Nieto in 2012. Enrique Peña Nieto was the Mexican President until 2018.
Difficult words: cartel (a big criminal organisation), court (a room with lawyers who say if somebody goes to prison or not), gave (past of ‘give’).
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President’s Drug Money – level2
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, ran Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel from 1989 to 2014. People say that in those 25 years, the cartel imported more than 200 metric tons of drugs into the USA.
In 2017, El Chapo was moved to the USA where he is on trial. If he is found guilty, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. El Chapo’s business partner was in a New York court room last Tuesday. He said that El Chapo bribed the now-former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. It was a bribe of $100 million given to Nieto in 2012 when he was still running for president.
Enrique Peña Nieto stopped being president just last year, in 2018. His spokesman said that he did not take the bribe.
Difficult words: on trial (lawyers are working to say if he is guilty or not), bribe (give money to somebody to do what you want them to do), former (-ex).
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President’s Drug Money – level3
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, ran Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel from 1989 to 2014. During that time, the cartel allegedly imported more than 200 metric tons of cocaine to the US along with heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana.
In 2017, El Chapo was extradited to the USA and he has been on trial since November. If he is found guilty, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. El Chapo’s business partner told a New York court room last Tuesday that El Chapo bribed the now-former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. He said that the former president originally asked for $250 million from El Chapo, but they allegedly settled on $100 million, which he then paid to the then-president-elect in 2012.
Enrique Peña Nieto stopped being president just last year, in 2018. His spokesman said that he didn’t take the bribe.
Difficult words: allegedly (according to what some people say; it may or may not be true), extradite (hand over a criminal to a foreign country where he or she did something illegal), bribe (give money to somebody to do what you want them to do).
https://t.me/news_in_levels_video/148