[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, a senior leader in the Sinaloa Cartel, received a 10-year prison term during a Wednesday court hearing in Chicago
- The 60-year-old is the only woman to hold a high-ranking position in the cartel that was co-founded by JoaquÃn 'El Chapo' Guzmán
- She was arrested in Culiacán, Mexico, in 2016 and was then extradited to the United States in 2017
- She pleaded guilty during in 2019 conspiring to traffic drugs and money laundering conspiracy for coordinating the distribution of drugs to the U.S.
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