Chapo's "Daughter"? Maybe Not So Much...

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat

A woman was arrested on Friday the 12^th of October at 3:27 at the US POE in San Diego, California.  She would later “confessed” as being the daughter of Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzman.

The woman was subjected to biometric electronic identification system that compares the irises and fingerprints with a national database of the Homeland Security Department (HSD). The system "linked the defendant with a history in the immigration service," reportedly said an agent in court. 

In other words, she failed in an attempt to enter the US on a prior occasion or was successful and was deported, hence her record with HSD.



Alejandrina Gisselle  Guzmán Salazar, 31 appeared in federal court this past Monday to face charges of impersonating another person by submitting a false document.

Debra Hartman federal prosecution spokeswoman did not confirm that the woman is the Chapo daughter and asks in an email to the media that they ignore the relationship aspect. The spokeswoman confirmed that Guzman Salazar was arrested by immigration and customs agents on Friday at the San Ysidro pedestrian checkpoint while trying to enter the United States with a false passport.

As the story broke everyone in the media including blogs and including our own Borderland Beat armchair sleuths, tried in vain to retrieve information of this self-described daughter of Chapo Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. 

First reports stated that the DEA had confirmed the arrested woman was Chapos daughter.  However in a  DEA website search for all press releases of events occurring in San Diego in the year of 2012 comes up empty with any statement about this immigration case.  Same goes for DOJ, FBI and ICE websites.   Nothing has been substantiated officially by any United States Agency.

Press releases of the DEA San Diego news for 2012

Another manipulated report was that the second wife of Chapo made reference in an interview.  The interview is one that will be posted on BB over the weekend.  The original interview has been edited, as the original report did not have the reference to the "daughter" named Alejandrina, nor does it have the added text in quotation marks.  Animal Politico and Zocalo reprinted the interview and their reprint which is a duplicate of the original report had no reference to this unknown daughter.

 

Photos began appearing of the arrested daughter of Chapo, and one by one they have been proven to be not this new daughter of Chapo but a photograph of another.  The first photo used was not of a 31 year old daughter but of his younger daughter of his second wife Griselda.  Next was the photo of his first Maria, and yet another photo posted of a young woman who is unrelated to the Guzman family.

Since the arrested woman has a name  similar to Chapo’s first wife Maria Alejandrina Salazar Hernandez, now 54 years of age,  it was assumed that she most likely was Maria’s daughter.  The problem with that is Maria and Chapo are only known to have three children, all sons; Cesar, Ivan and Jesus.  Chapo and Maria married in 1977, surmising that a 31 year old child of Chapo’s born in wedlock would be of that union.

Some reputable news agencies initially reported Alejandrina as being a daughter of the first marriage of Chapo.  One is hard pressed to think of a reason a daughter from Chapos first marriage would be hidden for 31 years.  It is illogical.

Chapos second wife is Griselda Lopez Perez current age 53.  They were married in mid 80s and produced four children; Ovidio, Joaquin, Griselda Guadalupe and Edgar.  Edgar was killed in May 2008.

In  2007 Chapo was married a third time to 18 year old Emma Coronel, niece of Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, a one-time partner of Guzman who was killed in July 2010 in a shootout with the Mexican army.

Emma, an American citizen gave birth to twin daughters in the summer of 2011, in Lancaster California.

So where does this previously unknown daughter of Chapo fit in?  One can think perhaps she is a daughter born from an affair and that is possible, however the name is so similar to Chapo’s first wife logic says if anyone Maria is the mother. However, If she was the product of an out of wedlock liaison , why quickly declare she is Chapo’s daughter? 

 

And why did she have such a problem attaining a visa in the first place?  That is not clear.  She is a doctor with no criminal history; Chapo’s other children that have records clean of criminal activity freely travel the world including the US.  So why not this medical doctor?

SEIDO Chief Cuitlahuac Martinez says US has not confirmed the womans identity

I know about as much history of Chapo as anyone interested in the subject, nowhere has the name Alejandrina Gisselle  Guzmán Salazar been reported as having a connection to Chapo.

Before the twins were born these names have been published as the children of Chapo:

César, Iván Archivaldo, Jesús Alfredo, Édgar, Joaquín, Ovidio and Griselda Guadalupe

Never before has a Alejandrina been included as a child of Chapo.  Perhaps there is an explanation, but as days pass and the representing attorney of the woman, in addition to the US authorities not confirming that she is in fact Chapo’s daughter, and Siedo (PGR) stating yesterday the US has not confirmed to them  that she is Chapo’s daughter,until and when that occurs  we should all take this story with a big grain of salt.  I assume any word of confirmation will be made public after her bond hearing.  If she is Chapos daughter, clearly, there is a best seller in her enigmatic history.

Meanwhile in all probability her son will be born a US citizen.

Just as she wanted all along.

 

FROM US DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

 

Categories: Alejandrina Guzman, Chapo Guzman, Chapos Unknown Daughter