"Chapo" Guzmán complains that "in 6 years he has not seen the sun" and asks López Obrador for help

He was one of

and author of "epic" escapes through tunnels from maximum security prisons.

Now, imprisoned in the United States,

 complains that he has not seen the sun for six years, when they locked him up.

El Chapo is serving his sentence in a wing

(Colorado) prison in unit H, under the SAMs scheme: Special, administrative and

That extreme isolation

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at the time of his arrest in Mexico.

Photo: AP

And now the former strongman from Sinaloa is asking the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for help, in the face of the "

" he claims to be suffering in the United States prison where he is serving a life sentence, one of his lawyers said Tuesday.

"In the six years that Joaquín has been in the United States, he has not seen the sun," said José Refugio Rodríguez, his defender in Mexico and who received Guzmán's "verbal" message through Mariel Colón, one of his legal representatives in United States, and one of the capo's sisters.

The Mexican embassy in the United States confirmed this Tuesday on Twitter that on January 10 it received an email from Rodríguez.

El Chapo is serving his sentence in the Florence (Colorado) prison.

Photo: AFP

Without referring to the content of that communication, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard

before journalists that his government could

"Let's see, but he is serving a sentence there, he has a sentence. So, frankly,

for him , but I'm going to review it with the prosecutor's office," he declared.

A corralito where the sun does not hit

Rodríguez explained that Guzmán only goes out three times a week to a "corralito" of about five square meters

and that he is authorized fewer visits or phone calls than other inmates.

"He is

and to a certain degree physical because not taking him out into the sun (...) generates a deterioration in his health, this deterioration can lead to

," he warned in an interview with the Radio station. Formula.

There is a certain degree of cynicism in the denunciation when it is known that Chapo himself admitted to having killed between 2,000 and 3,000 people.

The trial he faced in the United States and which ended up sentencing him to life imprisonment was

that the former drug lord committed.

Drawing of the Court during the trial of El Chapo in February 2019. Photo: AP

On his third day of testimony in that process, in November 2018, Jesús "el Rey" Zambada recounted several murders committed by the drug lord.

For almost four hours, on his third day of testimony, Jesús "el Rey" Zambada recounted several murders allegedly committed by "El Chapo", accused of trafficking more than 155 tons of cocaine to the United States for 25 years and who can be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.

El Chapo, protected by 30 to 40 gunmen, used pistols, AK-47 type rifles and even bazookas and did not hesitate to kill when he considered it necessary to protect the cartel's businesses and expand his power, according to Zambada, who at the time became a government witness. from United States.

They do not speak to him in Spanish, another torment

Now Guzmán laments that he is not allowed to communicate with other convicts and that the guards

He also pointed out that the Mexican authorities are obliged to monitor their prison conditions, according to agreements with the United States.

Rodríguez described the capo's claim "like an SOS of someone who

to hold on to."

He insisted, however, that the request to President AMLO also seeks to address alleged procedural violations during his extradition, carried out in January 2017 under the government of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018).

He asks López Obrador "to pay attention to this conduct of violation of rights in which the Peña Nieto government incurred," Rodríguez asserted.

Ovid Guzman.

Photo: AP

The claim of "Chapo" is known after the Mexican authorities captured Ovidio Guzmán, one of his sons and heir to part of the Sinaloa cartel, on January 5, in an operation in Culiacán (northwest) that left

Guzmán was found guilty in the United States of drug trafficking, money laundering and use of firearms.

On July 18, 2019, he was sentenced to life in prison, which he is serving at the ADX Florence maximum-security prison in the Colorado mountain desert.

Clarín writing with archive information and AFP agency

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