During the afternoon of this Monday, May 4, the court for the Eastern District of New York published three letters sent at the end of April by Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, known as “El Chapo”a former Mexican drug trafficker who served as ringleader of the Sinaloa cartel until your extradition to the United States in 2017.
In letters written from his cell in the maximum security prison in Colorado“El Chapo” Guzmán, or someone with good handwriting and English skills who wrote for him, asks the Brooklyn federal court for help to return to his country of origin, where he was allegedly “treated fairly while incarcerated” in Mexico.
“The verdict of my trial was not fair to my foreign policy,” Guzmán wrote last Friday, April 24, which is why he has once again asked a federal court of New York his extradition to Mexico, after being found guilty in January 2019 of crimes related to drug trafficking in that same court, located in the district of Brooklyn.
Faced with this situation, the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel detailed in a handwritten letter in English and published by the New York court who is now “fighting for extradition to Mexico,” even though he is currently serving a sentence of life sentence at the Florence maximum security prison, in Colorado.
Chapo charges in the US
“I request before the district courts that my rights be respected rights to request my extradition and to ask modifications regarding the violation of my sentence, in the interest of fairness in federal law,” wrote Guzmán, who was found guilty of ten crimes, including international drug trafficking. drugs and illegal use of firearms.
In the second letter, also written by hand and in English, Guzmán asked the court for the documents submitted by the United States Government in his case, since, according to him, “they did not demonstrate the justification of my cruel punishment in Brooklyn District Courts,” where he was convicted of leading a large criminal enterprise.
Read more: What will happen to Spirit reserves? This was the failed attempt to get Trump’s support
Likewise, who allegedly became the biggest drug trafficker of Mexico requested his judicial file “to find out how the jury reached a wrong decision who violated the court’s deliberation process,” after he was the second most wanted man in the United States, after Osama bin Laden.
“The verdict of my trial was not fair with my foreign policy, since I was not given the opportunity to dismiss my case as no compelling evidence was presented for my implementation. freedom“, stressed “El Chapo”, who was described by the Government of the American president donald trump like a man”relentless and determined.”
El Chapo — or someone with good penmanship and English skills writing on his behalf — has sent another letter from his supermax prison cell in Colorado to the federal court in Brooklyn.
He asks for help “on getting me back to my country.” pic.twitter.com/yi40rXLy4m
— Keegan Hamilton (@keegan_hamilton) May 4, 2026
Guilty of drug trafficking
Finally, Guzmán stressed that he has been “fighting” for three years for the New York court to accept an appeal for appeal and a new trial is held in his case, since in 2019 he was declared guilty by a popular jury of ten crimes, in a process that went down in history as the largest trial by drug trafficking carried out in the US
On that occasion, the jury found the drug trafficker guilty of the crimes of leadership and maintenance of a criminal enterprise continuous, international traffic drugsuse of firearms and laundering money from the sale of narcotics, for which Guzmán was sentenced to life imprisonment more than 30 years of prison.
And another one posted to the docket, in which El Chapo asks to be returned to “my own country where I was treated fairly while incarcerated.” pic.twitter.com/PbkiKqQTD4
— Keegan Hamilton (@keegan_hamilton) May 4, 2026