El Chapo: Lawyer Silvia Delgado who defended drug lord elected as judge

Silvia Delgado was one of the most controversial candidates to run in Mexico's judicial election.

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Tallies published on Tuesday showed that Silvia Delgado had won enough votes to secure a position as a local criminal judge in the city of Ciudad Juárez, on the US-Mexico border.

Her candidacy was one of the most controversial in the election held on 1 June.

A leading transparency organisation accused Delgado of being one of several candidates with alleged links to organised crime on the ballot sheet, an accusation she dismissed vehemently, arguing that she had simply been doing her job by defending El Chapo.

The 51-year-old lawyer was part of the defence team for El Chapo before the notorious drug lord was extradited from Mexico to the United States in 2017.