This Is The Biggest Fear That Marked "Chapo" Guzmán Since Childhood, Revealed The Criminologist Who Analyzed Him.

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Monica Ramírez Cano, was in charge of studying the mind of the leader of the international Sinaloa cartel, in addition to confessing his greatest addiction and other secrets of his life The capture of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, was one of the great captures at the hands of the Navy

With hundreds of direct deaths (in executions) and indirect deaths (from drug use) attributed to Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, it may be thought that the narco leader of the international Sinaloa cartel was not afraid of anything, however the drug lord was deeply afraid of an incident in childhood that he could never forget.

"'Joaquín, what are you afraid of?', I asked 'Chapo' Guzmán while he ate inside the space that was suited for our interviews. I was drinking water and we were relaxed," revealed criminologist Monica Ramírez Cano, who was able to carry out an in-depth analysis of his behavior when he was imprisoned in Mexico.

"You know that I fear very little, but what does scare me is the darkness," Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera then responded to Ramírez Cano in one of the interviews she did in 2016, during which time she made his criminal profile at the Maximum Security Prison of La Palma, in the State of Mexico.

"Let me tell you that when I was little, we had to go out to the bathroom and go through the backyard that on one side had a fountain and one day when I left in the morning, I could no longer stand it, at that moment, something very heavy fell at the fountain and I came out as fast as bullet, it caused such a noise that one of my brothers also woke up from the scare," he revealed to the surprise of the lawyer.

And he continued his episode: "Man, listen, we were so scared, me more, that I could never go through that yard alone."

Ramírez Cano sat for hours, before he was extradited to the United States in January 2017, in front of one of the best-known drug traffickers worldwide. El Chapo, initially in the Altiplano, in the State of Mexico, and then in Ciudad Juárez, revealed his most intimate secrets.

"He is a respectful person, takes great care of his ways, cordial, kind, very reserved, but when you establish confidence you can talk to him in an extraordinary way, which allows you to know how his mind operates," explained the criminologist.

She assured that Chapo, in his mind, is an "entrepreneur" who found an area of opportunity through illegality, and although he proved very talented for illicit businesses, his "IQ is normal."

Unlike other drug lords who tend to further personalize the exercise of crime, such as El Z-40 that commits heinous acts of violence, Guzmán Loera is an old-school boss who respects a mans word.

El Chapo considers, according to his talks, that the worst crime that exists is kidnapping, and about drug trafficking he believes that people use drugs because they choose to do so. He has a phrase that he always uses: "The facts are what’s recommend to you."

In addition to being addicted to women, before the specialist he admitted to having 23 recognized children, he also has a marked narcissism.

"He is not a psychopath. He has psychopathic traits and narcissistic traits that are reflected in a need for admiration, to feel unique and special," Ramírez said, adding that he is always proud to say that he got up at 05:00 each morning to go to the plantations and laboratories to organize his people and how his day wouldn’t end until 11:00 p.m. or 00:00.

"What he has is a very important strategic capacity. He knows who to put in the right place, who to remove and how to move his pieces, like in a chess game," he said.

The criminal psychologist already knew his story and that was not what interested her: how was it that the son of peasants from the Sierra de Sinaloa, rejected by his father, built the most powerful drug empire in history. She goes for the details in the talks. Those keys that filter from conversations and reveal who is behind the myth.

Inside his head is the entire recent history of drug trafficking in Mexico, told firsthand by its main protagonists. By alleged corrupt officials and rival bosses, Ramírez Cano has been threatened since she joined the federal government during Enrique Peña Nieto's administration in 2012.

Her life has always been surrounded by crime: she was born in the violent state of Chihuahua, which began to fragment in the mid-1990s with the deaths of Ciudad Juárez. Afterwards, Ramírez Cano was kidnapped by a criminal organization that sought to extort money from her father. When she was released, she escaped to Spain.

"What are your addictions?" is one of the questions that criminologist Monica Ramírez Cano asked Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán Loera, founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, in 2016. "None, my only addiction are women," replied the boss.

The criminologist interviewed him to create the profile of one of the most famous and ruthless drug traffickers of all time. He is not the only one: she has also been in front of murderers such as Mataviejitas, Mochaorejas, Zeta 40, and many more.

In September, Ramírez Cano posted a five-second video on her Twitter account where you can see her, wearing a white shirt and a red vest, just one meter from Chapo, dressed in his prison uniform.

Monica Ramírez Cano has classified information related to national and international security.

She studied Psychology and then specialized in Criminology, Criminological Profiles, Serial Violence, Juvenile Delinquency and Applied Psychology. For her, the word fear does not exist: every day represents the possibility of talking to one of the most dangerous criminals in the whole country.

"If I had the fear of ordinary people who are not involved in this, I could not sit in front of people who have committed very serious crimes and who have left a very deep wound in our society," she said in an interview with Infobae Mexico.

Among other drug traffickers whom she has interviewed, in addition to Chapo and Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, Z-40, former leader of the Los Zetas cartel, are Servando Gómez Martínez, La Tuta, leader of Los Caballeros Templarios, and Dámaso López Núnez, El Licenciado, of the Sinaloa Cartel, as well as dozens of serial killers.

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