Chapo Guzmán Complains About Mistreatment In Prison: "I'm Hungry And I Have Fungus On My Feet"

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He did so in an affidavit, which was included in a new civil lawsuit, which has already been sent to the attorney general: "The treatment I receive is cruel and unfair," said Chapo

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, founder of the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS), complained of the mistreatment he receives in the ADMAX Florence maximum security prison, located in Colorado. The Mexican drug trafficker, who is serving a life sentence in the United States, made an affidavit, which was included in a new civil lawsuit, which has already been sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as to Michael Carvajal, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP for its acronym in English), according to the Prensa Libre news portal.

Chapo's complaints

According to the drug trafficker, the constant check-ups and lack of medical care have caused him extreme stress and even a foot infection from sharing the nail clippers with other prisoners, according to his seven-page statement. The capo demands that he be allowed to communicate with other inmates and that the conditions in his cell be improved, since he feels uncomfortable.

“I am a 64-year-old Mexican and I was extradited from Mexico to the United States in January 2017 (…) The treatment I receive is cruel and unfair (…) They serve me little food and I am often hungry“. The founder of the Sinaloa Cartel says that there is not good ventilation in his cell, that this causes tachycardia, that he suffers from insomnia and even goes through periods of depression, he even claims to be losing his memory.

“Headaches, memory loss, muscle cramps, stress and depression (…) Every night this causes my heart to start beating rapidly, raising my blood pressure. I have raised this issue with staff, but no one has done anything.”

Guzmán Loera gave as an example an occasion in which the guards did not give him the necessary items in time for a foot fungus infection, derived from sharing the nail clippers with other inmates, which was not previously disinfected. He said that by the time he received the treatment it was too late and he had lost one of his nails.

He criticized the constant checks by the guards to prevent him from escaping, calling them "insane" and explaining that he lives in subhuman conditions. He also revealed that his cell measures 7 by 12 feet, and has a small window through which his food is delivered. This is located in the so-called “Unit H”, in which the most dangerous prisoners are found; among them, several terrorists.

El Chapo escaped twice from maximum security Mexican prisons; the first, he fled hidden in a cart, where they deposited dirty clothes, he did it with the complicity of prison officials. The second time he escaped through a tunnel built by his assassins, with the support of an expert. In 2017 he was extradited to the United States.

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