The founder and former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán Loera, once again requested his deportation to Mexico from the United States, where he is serving a life sentence for drug trafficking. The capo asked President Claudia Sheinbaum to consider taking some action to facilitate his return and asked a judge to allow him to show her that he has changed.
According to a publication in the Mexican newspaper Millennium“El Chapo” sent a letter, similar to more than a dozen that he has presented before Judge Brian Cogan, in which he mentioned President Sheinbaum to seek his return to Mexico.
“The president of Mexico is Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and her location is at the National Palace, Plaza de la Constitución s/n, Colonia Centro, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CP 06066, Mexico City, Mexico, to contact me about my foreign policy (sic) to return to Mexico,” wrote “El Chapo” in the letter signed on June 2, 2026, according to sources. Millennium.
In the document, “El Chapo” explains that his letter seeks to support his lawyer in the efforts so that he can serve his sentence in Mexico, and not in the maximum security prison of Florence, Colorado, where he is in isolation.
“I have a lawyer and my letter is to help my lawyer, I will not appear in court by myself, speaking the language of English in the United States,” wrote “El Chapo” in English and with several syntax errors.
As in previous letters, the drug lord complained about the harsh conditions in which he is in prison, which prevent him from receiving visits from his family and even having contact with other prisoners; Furthermore, he assured that his trial was not fair, since, as he stated, it was the Mexican Government that was responsible for the violence generated by organized crime in his country.
“The unproven violence was wrong with respect to my sentence, when the Mexican government caused all the murders and I was blamed for trying to protect my life and my family in Mexico,” the drug trafficker says in the letter.
He says he has changed
In another letter signed on June 4, 2026, Guzmán asked Judge Cogan for the opportunity to show him that he has changed and that his twin daughters and his wife, Emma Coronel, who served a prison sentence for crimes related to drug trafficking, need him.
“I am also asking Judge Brian Cogan to give me another opportunity to show people that my guilt in 2019 changed my entire life, on behalf of my adorable twin daughters and my wife, who need me in the present,” says Guzmán Loera.
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