AMLO and El Chapo's mother

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File photo. María Consuelo Loera, mother of the Mexican drug trafficker, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, leaves the United States embassy in Mexico City on June 1, 2019, where she went to apply for a visa to visit her son who is being held in a maximum security prison in New York, and he is serving a life sentence. (Credit: RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Editor's Note: Carlos Alberto Montaner is a writer and political analyst for CNN en Español. His columns are published in dozens of newspapers in Spain, the United States and Latin America. Montaner is also vice-president of the Liberal International.

(CNN Spanish) - María Consuelo Loera, 92, is the mother of Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán. He shook hands with Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the President of Mexico, and in the country the "God is Christ" arm was formed.

This happened in the state of Sinaloa, where the lady resides, who asked to greet the picturesque president while inspecting a newly made highway.

AMLO defended herself from the attacks, claiming that she was an old woman and that she was not responsible for the crimes of her son.

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But Chapo's mother gave more than a hand to the president. In a letter sent shortly before, he asked her to intercede with the American authorities to see her son (we presume to say goodbye to him). He adds that he wants to be returned to serve his sentence in a Mexican prison.

One of those who protested with the most energy is Adrián LeBarón. Not long ago, one of the drug cartels ambushed and murdered three women and six children belonging to the LeBarón family while traveling on vacation in three cars. Among the dead were 8-month-old twins. Adrián told the Reforma newspaper that AMLO "helps criminals."

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According to the National Public Security System in 2018, 34,582 people were killed. Those crimes represented a total cost of US $ 268,000 million according to the 2019 Mexico Peace Index, no less than a quarter of the gross national product.

In any case, AMLO's intercession so that Ovidio Guzmán, El Chapo's son, was released after the violence unleashed in Culiacán, Sinaloa, was criticized as a suspect and was highly criticized for a police operation that did not take into account the reaction of the thugs.

It is as if López Obrador ignored the laws of Mexico and had replaced them with his wishes expressed through slogans such as, for example, "bullets are fought with hugs."

This has brought him much criticism. They accuse him of being irresponsible and of being a disaster as a ruler. A video of the businessman Gilberto Lozano, former director of FEMSA, circulates quickly on social networks with these accusations.

"If I had known, I would not have voted for him," Mexicans often say.

Chapo Guzmán