The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, during his morning conference this Wednesday. Daniel Augusto (Cuartoscuro)
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has agreed this Wednesday to review the petition of Joaquín
El Chapo
Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel and one of the best-known drug traffickers in history, to serve his sentence in Mexico.
However, Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard did not give him much reason to hope when he told the press that he did not see many possibilities.
In 2016, after escaping twice from two different maximum security prisons in Mexico, the drug trafficker was arrested and extradited to the United States, where he has been serving a life sentence since 2019. His lawyer on this side of the border, José Refugio Rodríguez , sent a letter to the Mexican ambassador in the United States in which El Chapo denounces the bad treatment he has received during the years he has been imprisoned there.
"He hasn't seen sunlight for six years," lamented the criminal through his lawyer.
The one who was, for more than 15 years, the largest drug trafficker in Mexico, has managed to attract the attention of the president of the country.
"Yes, we will review it.
When it comes to human rights, there are ways ”, the president asserted in his morning conference.
His extradition request is now in the hands of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after El Chapo
's Mexican lawyer
send the petition to the embassy of Mexico in the United States.
In it, he defends that the criminal was improperly extradited, and that there would be possibilities of organizing his return to the country, because here "he has pending criminal proceedings."
On Tuesday night, Ebrard referred to the case in these unpromising terms: “He is serving a sentence there.
He has a sentence.
Frankly, I don't see any possibilities for it, but we are going to analyze it”.
In the letter sent to Mexico and reproduced by his lawyer, the criminal complains about the conditions in which he lives in ADAMAX, the maximum security prison where he is being held in Colorado.
"I ask President López Obrador to intervene, so that he can return to Mexico and take my case in a Mexican jail," El Chapo said in the letter to which journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva has had access.
"The conditions in which I find myself are degrading, infamous and inhumane," the letter continued.
The criminal says he longs for the sun: "In the last 6 years that I have been in prison, they have never taken me out of my cell to get the sun, not even for a minute."
He also says that they barely let him talk to his lawyer or his family, and that, apart from the lousy food they give him,
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