The well-known drug trafficker Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán has again requested that the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, intervene to facilitate his return to Mexican territory from the United States, a country where he has been imprisoned since 2019 serving a sentence of over 50 years for drug trafficking and money laundering offenses.
This request is part of a series of letters, about ten, that the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel has sent to Sheinbaum in recent years with the aim of achieving his transfer to Mexico. In the most recent one, dated June 2, he emphasizes that with this action he intends to support the work of his lawyer, as reported by the press this Friday.
In the letter, handwritten in English, 'El Chapo' claims to serve the rest of his sentence in a Mexican prison in order to receive visits from his family. He is currently held in the maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies."
As in previous writings, Guzmán laments the conditions of his imprisonment, assures that he remains in solitary confinement, with no contact with other inmates, and reiterates that he did not have an impartial trial, also holding the Mexican state responsible for the violence linked to organized crime.
"The Mexican government caused all the murders and I was found guilty trying to protect my life and my family in Mexico," he wrote.