by Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat
There is much packed in this letter…Guzmán does not want a deal, just a fair trial. He wants his family to know he wishes is attorneys to be paid. He requests medication……..
February 15, 2018
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Text of Joaquín Guzmán
Loera’s statement to Judge Cogan (translated from the Spanish original)
Judge Cogan
I, Joaquin Guzman-Loera, want to explain to you the problems that I have regarding my case:
Due to the rules that you authorized, I find it impossible to mount my defense in a case that you yourself said is very complex.
Due to the rules you authorized, I have not had contact with my wife for 13 months, either in person, on the phone or by letter. It has never been explained to me why that contact is not allowed. Six month s ago I wrote her a letter and, as far as I know, she has not received the letter. Because of the impossibility of contact, she has not been able to help me get the funds to pay my lawyers.
You authorized personal visits with my sister, but after a one-hour visit, which was monitored, the united states government revoked her visa. She can no longer enter this country.
You authorized phone calls with my sister and mother but they do not have the ability to pay the lawyers. Because the rules forbid me to give them instructions on how to get funds for my lawyers, they can not resolve the problem.
I have had some visits with my little girls who are 6 years old, but obviously they can not resolve the problems. I cannot even send my family greetings with them. When I told them to say hello to their mother, the agents who monitored the visit stopped it to scold me about passing messages.
Only my current legal team can visit me, but the rules do not allow them to pass messages to my family with instructions on how to obtain the fees.
The conditions that you authorized have greatly hurt me because I cannot build my defense with the teams of lawyers that I chose.
With luck and much effort, my family was able to make the first payment to Attorney Balarezo, but because of the rules I could not get the rest. The people who helped me make that first payment cannot do more.
At this moment Attorney Balarezo is doing the best he can with what he has. But my agreement with him included more resources to be able to defend myself. Not only his fees, but also for the necessary expenses.
Because I do not have access to the necessary resources, my case is affected because I do not have the full team of lawyers that I selected. To this day, my defense is not complete due to lack of resources.
Some articles that were published last week have said that my family does not want to pay the fees in part because they do not know what I want to do. I want to make it clear - I want my family to know that I want to go to trial. I do not have any intention to cooperate or to plead guilty. I also want them to do what they can to pay the attorney fees. The problem is that without instructions from me, they cannot do it.
Judge Cogan, I ask that you please modify the rules to allow me to speak with my wife faceto-face to resolve this situation. If not, my trial will be a farce.
I also want to explain to you that the rules you authorized are affecting me physically, mentally, and emotionally.
I suffer from headaches every day.I vomit almost every day.
They have not fixed two teeth and they are very painful.
I have not seen the sun or breathed fresh air for 13 months in your country.
The air I breathe comes through a duct in my cell and it is very dry - my throat and sinuses constantly hurt.
The light in my cell is on all hours of the day and it is difficult for me to sleep.If it’s not too cold, it’s too hot.
I am not even allowed to buy the same things that other prisoners can.
Because of the conditions and how they have affected me, I cannot focus to study the evidence in my case. I can not concentrate to help my defense. It is clear that the conditions have hurt me a lot. It is torture 24 hours a day.
Judge Cogan, I ask you to please authorize some medication to help me relax and focus so I can help my defense.
Finally, the decisions you have made about the motions are based on evidence that I do not have the opportunity to refute and that is not fair. I am not going to see important evidence until very close to trial and I will not have the ability to defend myself against it.
I thought that the American justice system was at least going to give me the opportunity to defend myself. But now I see that that is not the truth. All I ask for is a fair trial.
/s Joaquín Guzmán Loera
I'm not defending the guy, but it is unfair for the gov't to hold all the cards in their sleeves. Let's play a fair game and give him opportunity to defend himself. It ain't a big secret who this man is but let play by the rules. In other cases people have won their cases over technicality.
ReplyDeleteThe only people in America that obtain a fair trial and are given a slap in the hand punishment are Caucasian males. Look at all the mass shooters given weak ass life sentences for their fuckin crimes!!!
DeleteU.S. needs to do some soul searching as well as Mexico before both countries get even more out of hand!!!
Foretabiutit, when the government starts with the mental puñetas there is nobody safe, by the time they get to you there is nobody there to save you...luckily on the US.good lawyers can sue the local justices of the peace on higher courts, getting flooded with appointed Trumpanzees...
DeleteThat were you could be safer with public defenders and let your private lawyer go play Russian Roulette with his life elsewhere.
My first thought when I learned that the American court system was doing this to him, all I could see was the perfect appeal being created for his exoneration. I think, after he will definitely get convicted and serves time, is to get released for all this illegal behavior by the court. I might be wrong, but that's how it looks to me. The American "justice" system has been corrupted almost from the beginning. I'm not defending this capo, he's a monster, but they don't need to resort to this kind of behavior. They are deliberately giving him a "get out of jail" card, as far as I can see.
DeleteA guilty verdict will easily be overturned if this judge doesn't stop violating his rights to a defense. He will go free. Guess that will be fine for him. Letter like this will document for the appeal in the future, that Chapo will win. What are the prosecutors thinking ? Maybe he will get a ;arge money award too, paid by taxpayers for his harsh jail conditions, and health problems resulting. We must call this judge his best friend, since he is blowing the case.
DeleteExactly...they have an iron clad slam dunk of a case. There is no way he walks....unless the gov effs it all up with this bs....do it right...let him talk to his family...it's not like Ivan and Jesus are gonna come by and take orders. Just try him fairly, legally, and let him die in his cell.
DeleteTo all the narco lovers that glorify this tipe of business and Hallucinate with narco corridos thinking they are the shit because they make fast money and sleep in every day waking up at 12pm. Let this guy (chapo) be a lesson to all of you wannabe narcos. This is how you’ll end up if your not killed.
ReplyDeleteAlone, desperate, mentally unstable and pleating for compassion.
:Obamanation:
Says the one who has option opportunity,these people don't you fuken retard mind your own biz,it runs in the culture.like basketball,and football for blacks,that's what their good at ,haha
DeleteSpot on. There is a price to pay when we have been involved in hurting other beings, in any way. I had to experience some sick ass demons and battle the ignorance and pain trauma before I could try to comprehend the negative forces that were affecting me so darkly, gradually over a looooonng time. Its been a lesson I'll never forget, even when the time comes that nobody else understands what I'm talking about. Peace.
Delete@6:58pm
DeleteDid you even process what I said???
Let me Rephrase this to you:
I dint say that chapo deserves this!! I’m talking about the ignorants outside that culture!!
The ones that dream one day been a capo and run a trafficking organization when they have know idea of how it really works and that is not easy to be on top!!
The ones that think and fantasize of corridos, movies and tv series!!
The ones that think that it actually takes balls to be a narco witch is fake. You don’t need balls you need brains. 99.9% of Wana be narcos don’t have shit and are stupid taking selfies with cash or other luxuries and post them on line..
Now you tell me when was the first time or last that you seen chapo all blinged out on a picture with a LV,Hermès,gucci or a chinchilla coat??
Get it now 6:58pm??
Hahha! I had options and opportunity??? You have no idea buddy what I been through
‘Greetings from Michoacán!........
:Obamanation:
I ain’t no expert in the narco culture but I can assure you that these guys,the real dope dealers aren’t asleep at noon. Also like Rafael caro Quintero told the news reporter that this type of delinquency isn’t easy or else everyone would be doing it.
DeleteThe famous Sackler Family who addicted people to their heroine and coca in before it was driven to street corners also paid for the OXY "legislation" to have two addicts in every family, corrupting federal congressmen and senators in the process, with hundreds of millions of dollars, AND NOBODY IS EVEN INVESTIGATING, LIKE THE LAW APPROVED AT THE START OF 2017 LEGALIZING SALES OF WEAPONS TO PEOPLE WITH MENTAL PROBLEMS AND MAKING IT ILLEGAL TO HAVE THEM ON LISTS OF BANNED BY THE FBI.
DeleteSPONSOR #1 US SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY...
Its not an option? You are stupid. Is everyone in la tuna, badiraguato, sinaloa, a narco? Nope, does one have a choice to embrace or get away from it? Yes, im sure that just like anywhere else there is people that come from extreme poverty yet go on to become doctors engineers etc. Does every kid in the ghetto become a gangster? All that "no option, no choice" is just pure lame excuse
DeletePoor chapo, not even his sons care about him now. Can't even pay for a lawyer, Mencho must have taken a lot of $$ for their ransom. 😢 sad
ReplyDeleteMayo took what they owned and placed them on an allowance. When have you heard grown men being called menores, might as well be los putitos.
Deletemencho got his bi*ch ass punk by el chapo " i got your son you got mine" straight up words from el senor f*ck michoacan
DeleteMenores is like juniors, no problem there, not everybody is going to be speaking their "Inglés Sin Barreras" just to please your ass, it looks like the goal is to keep La Chapa isolated because somebody doesn'the want him to spill the beans, until he dies of cancer of the throat or somepim' like they killed John Gotti...
DeleteBut I am sure somebody knows how much concrete the mob is owed in New Jersey and New York, the Italian Mafia never forgives and never forgets, no mater how many Russian Red Mafiya gombas get on the way or former states attorneys like rudi giulianni have prize winning offices in Russia...wuuuh!
@530 mencho didnt get his sons mencho woulda killed then easy.damaso was behind that he did to show them that he had a power and didnt kill them cause those r kids compadres kids!
Delete710 obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about, the only reason The got that name was cause Chapo was still out, and they were the Mini Chapos, they don’t have their own nicknames. They are just called the younger Chapos. You clown
DeleteMencho got his boy back...That was Damaso's. Notice how it all went down. Damaso tried to link up with Mencho. Then he had Chapitos picked up in Jalisco. Sinaloa imediately snatched up Menchito. Mayo laid the law down, all the kids went free, and the real beeechez ended up thrown out of planes or extradited fast.
DeleteAre Chapitos that incompetent that they can't get some clean money to the lawyer,this is an organization that not only moves tons of drug to certain countries,but also tons of small bills to Mexico-South America,they have money launder's that are highly reputable for years, and are there for the picking like fruit from a tree.I think because they know Chapo won't snitch their punishing him in everyway they can,seems to be working,can't say he doesn't deserve it.
ReplyDeleteWhen chapo got arrested he turned in hundreds of people including major south american players... maybe mayo decided to cut him off.
DeleteHe's been snitching and double crossing friends and businesses partners for years. Burned to many bridges
DeleteWhy keep trials secret? Well, for the longest time Sinaloa and Sonora have been neighbors of Arizona, and supplied the narco-politicians there with laborers for their private prison industries for profit, cheap laborers and drugs to market all over the US back when everybody did their job, when Joe Bananas organised Arizona because Canada's cold was hurting his corns...now these low class gombas want to arrest everybody and extort and shakedown for presidential pardons, and their Monument to Hate Walls.
Delete--Ain't nothing bad that lasts for a hundred years,
and this shit shall pass too...
6:40 where is this proof he turned in these major players you speak of or is it more nonsense?
Delete6:40 you are lying motherfacker.
Deleteif La Chapa had played nice, collaborated, sung or pointed fingers it would be over by now.
Los chapitos are too powerhungry i bet they really dont give a fuck about their dad and dont care how hes doing now that they got a taste of leadership. There is a reason why a huge part of the cartel is distant from them, theyre not respected, they claim to be betrayed by many, well to much coincidense that too many turned away, i i bet its them who didnt want damaso saw him as a threat since he had alot more experience, and damaso was not gonna allow a young inexperienced loud kid boss him they saw tito as a threat for his beltran side, even Chino antrax had problems with ivan, gente nueva are no longer under direct orders of guzman not since r1 flaco and chapo are out gn is more independent now, and they only respect zambada because he saved them.theyre getting rid of their dads cartel and shaping it into their own cartel
DeleteThe lawyer may be scared to take dirty money . Think about it . Who is going to show up at your door if you make arrangements to receive money from , maybe not the biggest but the most talked about drug lord in the world . All money aint good money .
Delete@6:40 acting like you know it all (SMH) Chapo never turned in nobody that's why U.S is mad and ain't giving him rights. 1. No turning in people 2.No giving up money...so they (U.S.) are really pissed off. @6:40 Also says right there in written statement "I HAVE NO INTENTION TO COOPERATE OR PLEAD GUILTY" @6:40 ain't nobody believing your PENDEJADAS
Delete6:40 you are a sick facking liar, because:
DeleteWhen "they" are trying to break somebody there is no limit to the "enhanced techniques" "they" will try to get there.
Nobody wants to go and fight in open court against demands for La Chapa's accomplices testimonies, witnesses like Arizona politicians, their confederates on other states, and even some CIA rogue agents like Vicente Zambada Niebla did...
--John McCain barely survived "The Investigations of The Keating Five" back in the day, but he also survived enhanced torture in Vietnam, he could have an opinion
Chapo is done at least he would be in maximum security and be safe not like mencho who drop the soap and got babies trown at his face every day by the way good post borderland beat you guys rock
ReplyDeleteGrow up
Deletefacts facts
DeleteMencho never been in prison that man is smart as hell don't spread lies lies foo
DeleteLol your comment made my day need more of this kind of comments up in here
DeleteMencho was released... chapo violated his agreement and now the us gov is going to fuck him for it. The reigns are being handed to cjng, although cjng is going to be used as the scapegoat for why mexico needs us soldiers on their soil. We have no us installations in Mexico, China has 2 this is a problem, insert the radical cjng tying special agents up and threatening the federal gov of Mexico. But Sinaloa is done for. Mayo was extremely loyal to the us government so they don’t want to cut his income off, so yes they will still have a sizable hand in the drug market, but not as much lethality as others. They will be the markets circulator making sure that through the violence people stay “addicted” and dumb.
DeleteBeing a narco drug lord to me is like being a terrorist. I know people in his home state love him but the slaughter he has caused gives him no rights whatsoever and apparently the US justice system agrees with me.
ReplyDeleteDude,there are worse human beings walking the streets right now..I hear what you are saying but Chapo has had the full media PR machine demonizing him,emanating from the US outwards,does he merit this kind of blatantly biased "Justice" Don't you think they have gone slightly overboard ?
Delete6:00 in your dreams honey...
Deleteone thing is narcos at war against each other
...and another is government at war against everybody but mostly against an innocent, indefense, unarmed population that doesn't have anything to do with crime or drugs but may have money to extort from them through torture and death, and that mexican government murdering apparatus is bought and paid for by some in the US government behind the backs of their own people.
Mexican narcos do not go around the world murdering millions of people to steal their oil, land, mining, diamonds, animals for tourists to kill, or finance private military mercenaries like Blackwater, Xe, Academi, triple Canopy, constellis Holdings, just for war criminal Erik Prince of "frontier services group" who could well be behind the murders of centroamericans blamed on Los Zetas like San Fernando...
Greedy Private Mercenary Srvices need to be investigated,
Makes no sense when USA government is also involved.
Delete6:00 there was no slaughter in Sinaloa before La Chapa was cogido and extradited, there were narco-fights, but not wholesale murdering and raping and kidnappings for ransom like now that the Army/marinas federal police and "new g0vernor" are working to screw everybody 24/7, every day, all week to impose the empire of the LAW of Los pinchis güebos del Mando Unico.
DeleteI'm sure she got the message now. Great plan, el don keeps working the angles . Arribba sinaloa y MEXICO
ReplyDeleteI said the exact same thing.
DeleteBrilliant if planned!
JGL needs to understand that he can’t pay his lawyers unless the court can verify that it’s not the proceeds of organized crime. Considering that JGL has himself made it nearly impossible to track where his clean money (if he has any) is, JGL has made his own bed. One doesn’t have a right to choose their attorney—you can pick your attorney if you have access to clean money to pay them with, but otherwise you have to fall back on pro bono or a court-appointed attorney.
ReplyDeleteReally? how do mobsters pay their lawyers?
DeleteYeah but he still is not going to get a fair trial they want him as a trophy Pablo Escobar was killed before if not he would had been the trophy
DeleteBut he's entitled to have somebody with legal money pay for legal council for him. The prosecution cannot deny him that. Innocent until proven guilty after all.
DeleteThe rich fix things up the old way, like men...
Delete--Offshore, where there is impunity and secrecy, unless some nosy princesses start blowing up with their pinchis "exposés" and wiki leaks and shit like Panamá Papers.
How can this guy not accept that hes a dead man in the eyes of the us gob? Its unfair but seriously?
ReplyDeleteThe US "so called government is making extremely illegal moves to keep JGL silent and isolated, wonder why?
DeleteDon't, there are complicity issues, and a need for secrecy, Lucky Chapa was not sent to Guantanamo or a secret prison in Rumania or Poland because he would have confessed everythin' and two more meters, his billions of dollars would be home safe by now in some other new secret account offshore
Poor El Chapo. Could someone get him some queso to go along with that whine? It sounds somewhat like he is upset that he is not able to buy conjugal visits with his wife and/or prostitutes like he did back in Mexico. He should be made to realize that his ill-gotten assets are being looted, his illicit businesses are being taken over, and most likely Emma is already with someone else.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad he's suffering, going crazy , stressed , good torture USA keep doing the fine job that ur doing fck Chapo and any other narco out there , hope they all rot while still being alive ...
ReplyDeleteIRONIC
ReplyDeleteExcellent post BB!
ReplyDeleteAnd he still has ADX and hell to look forward to after he dies...
ReplyDeleteChivis This man don't want justice . Justice for him would be execution multiple times . Repeat the day over and over for infinity like that silly movie Ground Hogs Day . This shit head just wants to escape . Chivis I want you to be the pretend Judge . How would you handle it if he was a Dutchman with the same history as Chapo ? Now keep picturing him as 6"3 white and blond . Sold enough heroin to the Chicano community to OD the state of California .
ReplyDeletePore Chapo.your Mexican what do you expect! America is going to use you like a prime example for the world! America has never been fair to people of color!Only the American corrupt government can kill people with pharmaceutical companies, greed,and the NRA!
ReplyDeleteGreat series on Netflix!! Hope they pay you!😉🤣🤣
ReplyDeleteLOL. It's the cry baby complaining about conditions that caused MX to screw things up and let him drill his ass out of AltiPlano. I guess Chapo has heard so much crap about US from paisanos, he really thinks US is like MX. Truth is gonna hurt poor shorty.
ReplyDeleteThat’s messed up that’s not what this country is about and for sure is not made of and they should let that man get a fair trial yes we all know he’s never coming out again obviously but atleast let him try get a good defense team let him have family visits it’s against any humanity rules for them not to have family visits and or face to face contacts with the real world it should be brought up to the UN! No man should be treated like that let’s think this threw he was one day working with the DEA and CIA and he did turn in a lot of ppl in to them and he was paying off a lot of Americans as well maybe that’s why they don’t let him get a good defense team there scared of what he has to say.. and what he knows chapo knows a lot of secrets on both sides of the borders it can get interesting in the court
ReplyDeleteSaid it before,normal legality has gone out the window,Chapo is being treated like some fuckin Bin Laden/Guantanamo shit.
ReplyDeleteWhatever else we all think of him,this half mex-gringo cant help but admire this dude,he is not sniveling and snitching on every motherfucker as many here said he would do but just wants the US to stop moving the fuckin goal posts to suit them.
Fuck Chapo.The money he will use is blood money from thousands he had killed or ordered killed. His family is as dirty as this scumwad and the money they will provide if allowed by the US govt is NOT their money to defend Chapo. The money is from murders, kidnappings, extortions, robberies, etc. His defense team wasted their time taking this case hoping for a ltto payout. He will get a fair trial and be found guilty and headed to ADX. He deserves no less unless he wants to commit suicide. His only realy way out.
ReplyDeleteNo matter what crime anyone has committed they have the right to a free trial.
ReplyDeleteSo has anyone really read this??
ReplyDeleteIf he was in canada. They would release him. Then give him 10million and say sorry their buddy!
ReplyDeleteWasn't Chapo snitching in his previous prison for blankets and peanut snacks now he finds some character in him when game is all over lol
ReplyDeleteUSA is not Mexico, you can't bribe the judge. Overwhelming evidence of killings, are present. Sorry to say, you can't live like a king in prison. Mr. Capo you had your fun, time to pay the time with Bubba.
ReplyDeleteThis a charade, so it appears that Chapo isn't paying, doesn't have the money, for his lawyers.
ReplyDeleteIt money from unnamed friends of the family, so the gvt can't seize it.
Lets make a go fund me account for mr.guzman and help him out...
ReplyDeleteAll the cheerleaders create a go fund me for a chapo defense lol not a bad idea...proceeds are legitimate and cannot be questioned by law enforcement of course just as long as some smart guy doesnt donate hubdreds of thousands and stick out like a sore thumb lol but this organizations are pros at what they donspecially when it comes to $$$
ReplyDeleteA Go Fund Me is really not a bad idea. I wonder if anyone has thought about that.
DeleteGo fund won't allow u to generate any money if it's used for legal issues.... had many friends that have asked me to create a go fund me n they'll shut it down on me n notify me I can't use go fund me to generate money for legal issues like raising money for lawyers or bail or anything like that
DeleteLA Chapo could rise money for his 2020 presidential campaign, use it for lawyers for himself, his children, sons in law, or to pay all the putas he has taken to bed to keep it secret, and kill somebody on the streets of Niu Yoargk and still get elected, but he would not take Russian help, I swear...
DeleteThe Corupt American Government at Work.
ReplyDeletethis guy is something else! i can be certain of the fact that he has tortured plenty of people- rot dude! Welcome to America!
ReplyDeleteIt is very sad and not fair, but it is what the USA gov't system has become. Once the USA gov't comes after you, game over. If it's a drug case, you can forget it being fair. Research the story of the USA's first federal drug kingpin, David R. Chandler. A small time pot grower from Alabama, USA who was unlucky enough to fall a victim of a out of control war on drugs. Mr Chandler will never be a free man again for the crime of growing pot. Chapo doesn't stand a chance, I'm sorry to say.
ReplyDelete12:29 who are you????? only one comments appeared and it was yours! admins can post directly to threads but your appeared regular way and I have no clue why or how. YOU are very special. we have a few hundred comments waiting I saw the number but only yours appeared.
ReplyDelete4:12 that Russian bots, special counsel Mueller just indicted 13 of them, today, just for kicks
DeleteYeah well tough luck buddy! Rot in prison that's the system.
ReplyDeleteHey chivis!! Its yours truly "el guanatos" y no me agarres mala idea...im
ReplyDeleteNot nearly smart enough to be a hacker lol just seen that my
post was posted...i seen your post about no comments available but i had a thought and i went for it and posted it anyways. Maybe it posted when system booted up and crashwd again idk lol anyways saludos desde Los Angeles! Paz y prosperidad para la madre patria de nosotros los mojados! Viva Mexico libre de lacras y violencia! Paz!
jajaja I was just messing with you. we still have issues with comments. but I see Buggs got a few thru, but yojurs was spooky. I am looking at the first 100 then poof all gone but yours. Paz
DeleteChapo is a product of the American politician. DEA should thank him for putting food in their mouth.
ReplyDelete6:10 the Heirs of Rafail Caro Quentero are no DEA puppets, they and the whole Guadalajara cartel sinaloense members were all CIA puppets, but not of the whole CIA, just some "rogue agents".
DeleteThe CIA just covered up the crimes and the names of some of the criminals who soiled their name for personal gain, like Oliver North a Vietnam War Hero turned political lackey of his masters and Felix Ismael Rodriguez Mendigutia AND about 100 more pardoned by their master and commander...
--I am sure no DEA agent from that era of Discotheques has received any presidential pardon, on the contrary, they have been harassed no end by new directors with "a CIA background"
el chapo will never get out of prison, he will be a former shadow of himself if he survives to see the light of day again, the CIA will take him upon once he is released. Remember Griselda Blanco.
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