José Refugio, lawyer for the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán said that the drug trafficker asks President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for help to return to Mexico, arguing the “violation of his rights” by the previous government.
“He asks me to fight for his return to Mexico, I see it as an SOS… He hurts the trial that was not in accordance with due process and sees that he was taken to the US with a flagrant violation of his rights by the government of Peña Nieto, because he was not tried first in our country,” said the lawyer in interview with the journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva, in his program in Radio Formula.
Refugio, who was in charge of his defense during his extradition process in 2016, pointed out that it was through the lawyer who represented him in the US, Mariel Colón, that he learned of his situation.
The defender also said that “El Chapo” asked him to request an interview with the Mexican president, but that he knows that it is difficult for them to grant it. Reason why, Guzmán asked him to resort to the media.
the mexican newspaper The Herald He recorded that, when questioned about the drug trafficker’s request, during the traditional morning conference, the president only stated: “I have not seen, but we will see.”
Bad prison conditions
“El Chapo’s” lawyer also stated that given the poor conditions in which he lives in a US prison, Guzmán asks the Mexican government to repair the violations of the government of former President Peña Nieto.
“In the 6 years since you were in the US, [Guzmán] has not seen sunlight. Of March [de 2022] To date, they have authorized 6 or 7 calls with his girls, with his lawyer, with his mother,” said the defender, after reading a letter that “El Chapo” sent to the Mexican embassy in the US.
Refugio Rodríguez also commented that he asked the Atlanta consulate for help to visit his client, but they replied that they cannot intervene because it is a complex case.
Mexico’s most notorious cartel kingpin, who twice escaped prison and spent years on the run as the country’s most wanted man, was extradited to the United States on Thursday, January 19, 2017 to face charges of drug trafficking and others.
Guzman was sentenced to life in prison in 2019in a maximum-security prison to prevent further escapes, for smuggling tons of cocaine, heroin and other drugs into the United States as leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, where prosecutors said he amassed power through assassinations and wars with rival cartels.
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