The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán has asked the Mexican authorities to be transferred from the Colorado prison, in the United States, where he is serving a life sentence, to a penitentiary center in Mexico.
The lawyer for ‘El Chapo’, José Refugio, has assured this Tuesday that the famous drug trafficker wants to send the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, this request, alleging that in the last six years “he has never seen the light of the sun “, has hardly received visitors and is not fed with quality food.
“Given the degrading conditions that he lives in a prison in the United States, Joaquín Guzmán asks the president to repair the violations of the Government of (former Mexican president Enrique) Peña Nieto with his case and find the channels for him to return to a prison in Mexico “, Refugio has transferred, collects ‘El Universal’.
Questioned about this matter, President López Obrador has assured after a press conference that he has no proof of the statements of the lawyer of ‘El Capo’. “Let’s see,” said the Mexican president.
In July 2019, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán was sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States Justice accused of eight counts of drug trafficking and organized crime, 30 years in prison for carrying weapons and another 20 years in prison for money laundering. .