Chapo Guzmán's videos in jail begin to become a genre of his own. This week, the Latinus digital portal published a new one, this one of 7.34 minutes, where the drug trafficker is seen and heard in the El Altiplano prison in 2016, while a man in a robe asks him a series of routine questions.
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It is the second video that transcends the months that Guzman spent in jail before being extradited to the United States. In another one published last summer, he appears next to the federal prison manager, Eduardo Guerrero, asking him to let him out more to the patio and not to see him so much, because he can't sleep. Guerrero replies that there has to be security because he has already escaped twice from prison. And El Chapo replies: "Ah, but that's something else!"
In the new one, El Chapo appears just hours after the Mexican authorities presented him at the airport of the capital, after his capture in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. You saw a brown jumpsuit, with the number 3870 painted on the heart. They just shaved his hair and mustache. His hands are stained with ink, which is patiently cleaned with paper napkins. Meanwhile, the officer in the robe asks the name, age, address, level of education - "primary", he replies, "finished?" Replies the official, "Yes, sir", ditch Guzman -, yes he is married, his occupation - farmer -, nationality, religion ...
Guzman appears calm, concentrated on the napkins and fingertips. In the lower part of the jumpsuit, some buttons look unbuttoned. Answer all questions automatically. When the official asks if he is married, he pauses a little longer than before the rest of the questions. Then, when asked to write down the name of his lawyers and he does and ends, he asks if he can write down his wife's name. "No," replies the other, "not here. Here they are just pure lawyers."
In the two videos, Guzmán gives off an amazing calm, especially in the latter, while officials prepare for his entry into prison. Between them there could be several months of difference. Arrested on January 8, 2016, he was not extradited to the United States until one year later. That time was spent in the Altiplano, two hours from the capital. Then he would be extradited, tried and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Calm, the control that appears in both videos contrasts with the lack of response in the interview he gave Sean Penn in October 2015. They both met at a ranch, somewhere in northwestern Mexico, with the intermediation of Actress Kate del Castillo. The authorities then went after Guzman, after his last escape, precisely from the El Altiplano prison, thanks to a tunnel that he and his henchmen built from his cell outside.
In October 2015, Guzmán sought refuge in the mountains. In the interview, partly recorded on video, the drug trafficker appears talking about how he started in drug trafficking, life and death. Penn, who wrote a text as long as criticized for Rolling Stone about the meeting, asks Guzmán if he knew how Pablo Escobar ended and how he thinks his days will end. "I hope it's a natural death," he replies.
In the video that has transpired this week, Joaquín Guzmán has already been arrested. Three months have passed since the interview and the ink is cleaned from the hands. In addition to the video, Latinus has also disclosed several images of the bonnet in the barber's chair, in prison, while a federal policeman shaves his head and mustache. He does not say anything. Just look down.