El Chapo trial: Joaquín Guzman joked about arming infant daughter with AK47 in texts to wife, court hears

El Rey Zambada has also named Gabriel Regino — a former secretary for Mexico’s president-elect — as one of the officials alleged to have accepted bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. 

As an official working under the president-elect during his tenure as the former mayor of Mexico City, Mr Zambada claimed Mr Regino accepted “a few million dollars” in bribes from the cartel in 2005.

According to Jesus Zambada’s testimony, Gabriel Regino, who worked under Mexico's president-elect while he served as the former mayor of Mexico City was bribed by the sinaloa cartel because it was rumoured the official was in line to become the nation’s next secretary of security. 

The cartel had allegedly hoped to bribe him in order for his compliance surrounding its drug trafficking operations.

Jesus Zambada, a Cartel insider and turncoat who has spent his testimony snitching against his former colleagues, was reportedly swiveling in his chair while under cross-examination during  the trial of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, occasionally stroking his mustache and at other times smirking. 

Reporters in the room have said Chapo spent the last three days of testimony staring Mr Zambada down. 

Sinaloa cartel turncoat Jesus Zambada gave a nod to Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman after delivering his final testimony on Tuesday afternoon, as if saying goodbye to the drug lord (today’s hearings will likely be their last time seeing each other in court, if not forever). 

Chapo, who has spent the last three days staring down Mr Zambada, gave him a “half nod” back, according to Fox News producer Marta Dhanis.

Gabriel Regino, who worked for Mexico's president-elect while he served as the former mayor of Mexico City, refuted the testimony claiming he was bribed by the Sinaloa cartel in 2005 while live-tweeting the trial. 

Here's a recap of today's most important developments arising out of Sinaloa cartel turncoat El Rey Zambada's testimony, via AP: 

A government witness at the U.S. trial of the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo says his cartel bribed the country’s former top security chief and another person who once worked under the current president-elect.

Former cartel member Jesus Zambada testified Tuesday that in the mid-2000s he gave $6 million in drug money to the security chief, Genero Garcia Luna.

Zambada also claimed that more million-dollar payments were made to Gabriel Regino, who worked in the administration of Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s administration when Lopez Obrador was mayor of Mexico City.

Today's hearings have ended. The Chapo trial will resume on Monday.

We are entering the third week of the El Chapo trial.

Today, another cooperating witness will take the stand - but his identity will be kept secret and the court room sketch artists will be kept from drawing his face.

It is not unprecedented for court room artists to be asked not to draw certain participants, but is is certainly unusual.

Overnight, there was another motion from the US government calling on the judge to limit the testimony of the next witness. The motion is heavily redacted, meaning it is unclear exactly what the prosecution are looking to have removed.