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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

El Chapo' Guzmán Denounces That He Is Discriminated Against And His Human Rights Are Violated In Prison

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

The drug lord, sentenced to life in prison in the United States, complains in a letter that he has not had access to key documents for his case.

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, after his extradition to the United States in 2017.

"A very big discrimination and a violation of human rights." This is how Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán complained about the treatment he receives at the maximum security prison in Florence, the "Rocky Mountain Alcatraz", in the state of Colorado. The former head of the Sinaloa Cartel wrote a letter in his own handwriting to Judge Brian Cogan, the same judge who sentenced him to life imprisonment in 2019, so that his lawyer could send him several documents in Spanish about his case.

El Chapo said that Mariel Colón, his legal representative, went to the prison on June 20 to deliver some documents to him, but that prison guards did not give them to him because they were in Spanish. "Mr. Judge, here in jail they know I don't know English," he wrote to Cogan. The drug trafficker says he has tried to keep track of the latest developments in his case with the help of a dictionary.

The documents requested by El Chapo are related to a 2255 motion, an instrument with which a prisoner in U.S. custody asks to be released on the grounds that his sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or the laws of the United States. "Everything is consciously and in bad faith against me," Guzmán claims in a letter dated July 9 and reported by the newspaper Milenio. In the two-page letter, to which EL PAÍS also had access, the drug lord says that "for everything they use the flag that he escaped from prison in Mexico" to prevent contact with his lawyer. "It is an absurd way out to try to justify their anomalies," he argues.

The letter from Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, to Judge Cogan.Courtesy.

"It is a right that every prisoner has and that they know they are violating," claims Guzman, who demands the judge's intervention so that his correspondence is not withheld. In September 2021, El Chapo complained that he was receiving "cruel and unjust treatment" since his extradition from Mexico in January 2017. The Sinaloa Cartel founder argued that his physical condition and mental health had deteriorated due to the isolation measures he was subjected to. "I suffer from headaches, memory loss, muscle cramps, stress and depression," the capo wrote on that occasion. "I have suffered a lot." In January of this year, another letter was published, this time addressed to Mexico's ambassador to the United States and requesting the intervention of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for his release.


An appeals court upheld Guzmán's conviction early last year. His lawyers argued that the jury's decision had been biased because some members had read press reports about their client's criminal history. They also said that the conditions of solitary confinement imposed on the drug lord prevented him from coordinating with his defense to work on the case. The arguments were not enough in court. "Any possible prejudice was not harmful in the face of overwhelming evidence of Guzman's guilt," they said in assessing the challenge.

El Chapo Guzman's letter to Judge Cogan.

Emma Coronel, a former beauty queen and Guzman's third wife, was released from prison last June. Coronel spent 15 months in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering, before being granted the right to serve the remainder of her three-year sentence in house arrest, imposed in 2021.

This year, the US justice system has launched a new judicial offensive against Los Chapitos, four of El Chapo's heirs, pointing to them as the main people responsible for trafficking fentanyl to the United States. Alfredo, Ivan Archivaldo, Joaquin and Ovidio Guzman, along with 24 cartel associates, were indicted on a wide range of charges including organized crime, drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons and money laundering last April. Ovidio Guzman, alias El Raton, was captured last January amid a major operation in Culiacan, the Sinaloa state capital.

"We are not the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, nor are we interested in becoming one," Guzman's sons said in a letter released last May through their lawyers. El Chapo's heirs said they were "scapegoats" and victims of their father's bad reputation. "We believed that by keeping quiet and not bothering anyone we would lessen the consequences of the cradle in which we were born," they said.

"In advance, I thank you," reads the last line of a new letter, now from El Chapo. Cogan plans to hand down another conviction in January of next year, this time against Genaro García Luna, former Secretary of Public Security in the government of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012). Garcia Luna, the architect of Mexico's drug war, was convicted in February of three counts of drug trafficking, one count of organized crime and one count of misrepresentation after being accused of collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel for more than two decades.


El País

51 comments:

  1. Send a group of operators to fuck up the warden or stop bitching. Usa got real prisons.

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    1. Every country has "real prisons" you imbecile. Chapos a pawn in the U.S drug trade game.

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    2. 654 oye tonto. The prisons in Mexico are a joke if you have money. Supermax don't give a shit if you're a billionaire.

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    3. 6:54 you sound really mad, go give chapo a hug and make him feel better

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    4. @7:49PM Having big money hasn't sprung free Abigael González Valencia. Big money didn't free Gerardo Gonzalez-Valencia from a life sentence. And the Cuinis reputedly have more money than God.
      So if the biggest drug whales can't buy their freedom, how are Mexico's prisons a joke?

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    5. Same with the Arellano Felix bros. When Benjamin got nabbed in 2002 he was reportedly worth over 1 billion. If the government turns its back on you then your money ain’t green

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  2. Pues no que muy bravo.

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  3. Poor guy man’s gotta be going crazy in that box he must miss the mountains a lot rn

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  4. Better start digging your ass back home

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  5. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-anthrax-monkey-sinaloa-cartel-members-sanctioned-us-fentanyl/

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  6. He’s already escaping lol watch just wait

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    1. 6:03 🫵🫱🫲👏🤛👋👋👋 wake up buddy nap time is over, this is real life

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    2. @6:03 He is NEVER getting out of there 🤣. US maximum security prisons are impossible to escape from. ADX is one of the most secure, if not the most secure. He's in isolation 23 hours a day. Constantly moved to different cells. Different guards and only gets interaction with guards when let into basically a slightly bigger cell for exercise 1 hour a day.

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    3. Mexico is looking into helping him actually to bring him back lol woke

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    4. 11:05 good luck with that, nobody cares about chapo but his cheer squad

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  7. Chapo is use to getting layed in Mexican prisons, not in America.

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  8. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1680

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  9. What a fucken chump he wasn’t crying when HE was the one doing the torturing why even bother with him they should just throw his ass in a cremator and forget about him at this point we’re just wasting tax money on his ass

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  10. Mario calabazas DEAD

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  11. Welcome to the U.S.A @ el chapo, he innocently thought that the U.S is like the Hollywood movies? All democratic and humanitarian? Lmfao poor chapo!

    Mejor una tumba en México que una carcel en estados unidos..🦉

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    1. 6:51 Es lo que decian en sus corridos, pero cuando la vio de cerquitas se le hiso de pollo 🤣

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    2. El Chapo tiene decadas wey no mames

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    3. 11:04 yo tambien tengo decadas y eso que tiene que?

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  12. Human Rights ya prick?? How about you and snuffing Human Lives!

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    1. Toppazz
      Criminals have all the glory and above the law killings, when they are in that power. Once it's time to be arrested and charged, they cry foul 😭 what human rights. Anything he cries about, will not shorten his prison time. Not even if he sings like a Canary.

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    2. Not sure why you're telling me about a shortened prison sentence?? He will die in SuperMax. No way he EVER walks free again.

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    3. Russian criminals with harsh prison sentences also believed they’d never see the light of day again. And then the war with Ukraine kicked off. In a moment of desperation Putin dangled their freedom in front of them. It is far fetched but it happens.

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    4. Toppazz
      It was not mentioned anywhere of a short prison sentence are u on meth.

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  13. Oh no! The vicious mass-murderer is suffering. Well, whose fault is that?

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  14. All because you wanted to be a movie star and now your some chump complaining. Que pena feo

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  15. El mero jefe de jefes!

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  16. Hey at least he can write in cursive jajajajaja

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    1. My 7 yr old can write way better 😂😂😂 he had to do the 5 like six times, i wonder how long it took him to write this letter?

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  17. El jefe de jefes is dead Arturo beltran primero Muertos que press, buche,chalito,el Rojo pero dejaron gente en todo mexico y los tres eslabones siguen as strong as ever

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    1. Tue jefe esta echo mierda ya in el PiSO

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    2. One of the best corridos for Arturo Beltran is by grupo perfil - La muerte de Arturo . It’s not as known as all the other ones he has but it’s a good one.

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    3. “Me cambiaron el apodo” y lo voy agradecer Me dicen jefe de jefes eso ya lo demostre- ABL

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  18. I believe him, he has no reason to lie. Mr. Guzman is a political prisoner. He belongs in minimum security prison in MX.

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  19. Arturo Beltran and Tony Tormenta, Escobar , went out with a Bang !!! The rest of the should take notes! 30 years of misery in prison or hours in a shootout ! Take your pick ! Your balls will choose for you

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    1. The reason why Mochomo got a life sentence. The gringos are mad they weren’t able to capture and extradite the legendary Jefe De Jefes since he gave them the finger and went out like a real one. Whatever they were going to use against Arturo, they took it out on Alfredo.

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    2. Beltranes are soft too, quit believing their bullshit hyped up stories of bravery! Hahahaha you kids are on some straight up bitch shit all on his nuts.

      Semper Fi

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    3. Hardly None of the big cartel bosses go out with a bang but they demand fight to the death of their soldiers fucking pussies

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    4. Ramón Arellano Félix didnt flinch either. He was frontlinin with his hitters

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  20. For being a guy everybody feared cause he a G, he sure sounds like a bitc- now crying all the time .... Pogre

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  21. Pinche chapo culo no mames se pasa de brga como que no es el chapo hahaha alv

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  22. He's being discriminated against and his human rights violated? Well, if there's BLM, he should be the president of "MLM"

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  23. The only way el chapo is escaping is in a casket. The warden said that ADX is literally a tomb for the living. He wont intimidate or bribe his way out of a U.S. prison.

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  24. Yeah that’s how ADX works. Not supposed to be ethical. Should have never let himself get captured alive.

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  25. This moron should just accept his fate, its too late for regrets, Nacho C was wiser and left on his own terms

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