Drug lord, El Chapo asks federal judge to reinstate his phone calls and visits in Colorado prison

Drug trafficker El Chapo asks federal judge to reinstate his Colorado prison phone calls and visits

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Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán asked a federal judge to reinstate his telephone and visiting privileges at the supermax prison in Colorado, where he is serving a life sentence.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan dated March 20 and filed Tuesday in New York district court, Guzmán wrote: “I'm sorry to bother you again with the request I made to you earlier regarding my wife, Emma Coronel. “

“I ask that you authorize her to visit me and to bring my daughters to visit me, since my daughters can only visit me during school holidays, as they are studying in Mexico,” he wrote.

Tuesday's filing includes a handwritten envelope sent to the judge for Guzmán, who was convicted in 2019 of running Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel.

In the March 20 letter, Guzmán writes that his wife is the only person who can visit him in prison because she lives in California and other relatives would need visas to visit him.

“It also bothers me that you continue to give me the two 15-minute calls per month that you authorized me (one call every 15 days), since in May 2023 the establishment stopped giving me calls with my daughters,” he wrote. “And I haven't had a call from them in seven months.”

“I asked when they were going to call me and my daughters and the team here told me that the FBI agent who monitors the calls is not answering. “I ask that you continue to give me the two calls you authorized me per month. I don’t understand why the prosecutor responsible for the SAMs Rules stopped authorizing calls with my daughters.”

Guzmán said that what is being done to him is “unprecedented discrimination” and asks the judge to intervene.

Guzmán was convicted in 2019 of running an ongoing criminal enterprise, including large-scale drug violations and a murder conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracies, illegal use of a firearm, and a money laundering conspiracy. In January 2022, a federal appeals court upheld the conviction after Guzmán sought to overturn it in Brooklyn federal court on 10 grounds. The appeals court ruled that “neither of these claims has merit.”

Under Guzmán's leadership, the Sinaloa cartel imported into the US more than 1 million kilograms of cocaine and hundreds of kilograms of heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine.

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