The sum represents the total amount of cocaine, marijuana and heroin that a jury found Guzman to have trafficked, multiplied by the average prices of those drugs, according to a filing by prosecutors in Brooklyn federal court.

A former undercover agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency claims the cartel targeted Canada because of its weak national policing.

The trial of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman will begin with lawyers' opening statements in a federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday.