USA.- Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera assured that he is not who the media, authorities and even his former colleagues (in the drug trafficking), they say it was.
The Mexican government allegedly used him as a scapegoat to blame someone for the crime of the Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocamposo they made it more important to the one I really had.
All previous he says it in a letter written from the ADX Florence maximum security prison, in Colorado, United States, and sent to U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan for request a new trialpublishes the media outlet XEVT.com.
In July 2019, Judge Cogan issued a sentence of life imprisonment, plus 30 years in prison.
At the moment “El Chapo”, 67 years oldthis in a very severe confinement regimepractically does not see the light of day, and has stated that his mental and physical health is deteriorating.
About the Posadas crime
This Friday, May 24, 2024, 31 years have passed since the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Guadalajarain Jalisco.
In the letter sent by “El Chapo” Guzman to Judge Cogan, which was translated and adapted by his lawyer, Mariel Colón Miró, requests a new trial.
In the letter, Guzmán assures that on May 24, 1993, while arriving at the Guadalajara International Airport to then fly to a beach destination, he was “caught in the middle of a crossfire.”
“He parked his car and got out to look for his suitcases in the trunk. When he opened the trunk of his car to unload his things, another car arrived and parked right next to Mr. Guzmán’s car. While Mr. Guzmán was unloading his luggage, he heard gunshots. very close to him.
“Mr. Guzmán realized that some men were shooting at the car next to him. People in the parking lot began to run, including Mr. Guzmán, who left his belongings behind to look for somewhere to hide. Mr. Guzmán’s identification “The Mexican government took advantage of that and took Mr. Guzmán’s identification to have someone to blame,” the letter details.
According to “El Chapo”, the next day (May 25) his legend was born.
The Mexican Government “spread like wildfire” the story of Guzmán Loera as one of the great leaders of Mexican drug trafficking, the letter abounds, as they assured that Posadas Ocampo was shot dead after a confrontation between hitmen from the Arellano Félix and “El Chapo” Guzmán-Sinaloa Cartel.
“Later the United States government also started a negative campaign against Mr. Guzmán and gave him negative publicity. There was too much bad information in the media that made Mr. Guzmán look too big, so they had to arrest him because society did not “I could understand how Mr. Guzmán was still free. The government had to detain him so as not to look bad to the public,” the letter elaborates.
Lawyer Colón mentioned that, during a testimony, Vicente Zambada Niebla, “El Vicentillo”, stated that the governments of Mexico and the United States inflated the profile of “El Chapo” Guzmán, who before the Posadas crime, mostly The Mexican public “had no idea” who compadre Chapo Guzmán was.
They made a case
Lawyer Mariel Colón assured that the US government also fabricated a case against Guzmán Loera, adds the media outlet XEVT.com.
The extradition of Guzmán from Mexico was illegal, says the lawyer, and that even the intercepted communications, with which the Mexican was sunk during the trial against him, “were false.”
“To stop him, the US government fabricated a case against Mr. Guzmán, using servers located in the Netherlands and also with software called “FlexiSpy software. They committed fraud, lied and kidnapped him in the Eastern District of New York, violating the extradition law,” concluded attorney Colón.
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