Mexican President calls the sentence of El Chapo "inhumane"

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat from Reforma

“.....a person is to be in prison  for life, in a hostile prison, it is harsh, and inhumane." [AMLO]

 

President López Obrador was upset by the sentence of life imprisonment handed down to Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and the conditions of the prison in which he will possibly remain.

"I am very sorry that these cases occur, I do not want anyone to be in jail, that no one be in a hospital, that no one suffer (...) I hope this does not happen anymore, that all Mexicans have the possibility    of being happy, without incurring in illicit acts, without exposing ourselves, without living with the risks that are run when acting outside the law, "he said.

"It is also a tragic  life to have a family and not be able to see it, maybe this is not life, and when all those things that happen end in sentences, like this, a sentence that a person is to be in prison  for life, in a hostile prison, it is harsh, inhumane."

However, the president kept in mind the victims of organized crime.

"I also have many victims in my head,  it is very painful, we will continue to build a better, more humane, more fraternal, more supportive society, of course peaceful, non-violent, supported by values, supported by all in values, not in the accumulation of material goods, "he said.

He insisted that whoever opts for crime provokes the suffering of their families.

"I am constantly communicating with mothers who have imprisoned children and it is very painful because the mother will always be on the side of the children, even if the children do not behave well. [living morally]

o it is necessary that we all behave well to give mothers happiness, our families, that is very important, strengthening values, that is why we are going to continue insisting on not only improving the material situation, not only looking for material well-being, but the well-being of the soul, that's why we are distributing the moral booklet of Alfonso Reyes ", He said.

On Wednesday, the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, was sentenced in the United States to life imprisonment after being found guilty of drug trafficking.

Although the US authorities have not reported where he will be imprisoned, the capo is expected to spend the rest of his life in the federal prison ADX Florence, in Colorado, the most secure  in the country and the only one labeled "Supermax".

Inmates are usually confined for 23 hours a day in solitary cells measuring 3.5 by 2 meters, each with a window just over one meter high and 10 centimeters wide, angled upward so that he can only see the sky.