With help from AMLO: "El Chapo's" mother, sisters, receive U.S. Visa approval to visit him

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat TY Mica for the heads up!

San Francisco Chron is reporting that María Consuelo Loera Pérez, mother of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán,  says she has received approval from the U.S, for a visa to visit her son in the New York City prison in which he is being held.  She added that two of her daughters were also approved.

Loera made the comments Saturday, as she exited the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. 

The 91 year old, appeared frail and using a wheelchair.

"Thank God, the U.S. Embassy gave me the permission," she said.

She said that although she was approved, she has not yet received the visa, and is unsure when she will be travelling to NYC.

She was noticeably exited and told reporters that she ‘wants to hug her son”, and wishes she could take him his favorite dish; enchiladas.

As for the hug, that will require special permission by the court, as Chapo is still under the ultra-strict SAMS, or special security measures, that do not allow any body contact, so as it stands she will visit him with a glass partition in-between herself and her son.

Loera asked for help from AMLO

In February Loera asked for help from the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to obtain the repatriation of her son.  This was a week after her son was found guilty in New York, of ten counts and could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

The request of Loera was addressed to López Obrador through a letter in which she explained that it had been "more than five years without her seeing him" and that he was extradited to the United States illegally.

Humanitarian visas

She also asked him to ask the United States Government for the authorization of humanitarian visas  for she and her daughters, Armida and Bernarda Guzmán Loera. [below]

"The lady is almost 90. She was going to hold a press conference in the city of Badiraguato (Sinaloa State), but she felt ill and returned home, but she handed us the letter," explained lawyers José Luis González and Juan Pablo Badillo at a press conference in Mexico City.

López Obrador then visited Badiraguato, in the town of La Tuna, the birthplace of El Chapo who was born there in  1957. The president said he intervened out of empathy for the mother. When El Chapo was convicted in the U.S. in February, López Obrador said: "Let this serve as a lesson to show that money doesn't buy true happiness."

The two lawyers explained, at the time, that both the mother and the sisters of El Chapo, would soon travel to  Mexico City to appear at the embassy of the United States.

After hearing the guilty verdict of the jury in New York, Mexican lawyers said they will seek before international courts to declare the nullity of their trial in the United States and to consider it "illegal."

Appealing the sentence.

González and Badillo maintained that the transfer of El Chapo to New York in 2017   was illegal, given that the extradition was only authorized for the courts of California and Texas. Badillo said that they will argue that "this trial is null and void" before the International Court of Justice of The Hague and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in addition to exposing this situation to the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN and Amnesty International. 

Reforma reports that it was in fact a “Humanitarian” Visa that was approved for the family.  "I thank President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the United States Embassy because they gave me permission," she told the media.

El Chapo is scheduled to me sentenced on June 25^th.