During the night of last Monday, May 4, the federal judge of New York, Brian Coganwho condemned the Mexican Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loeraknown as “El Chapo”rejected the request of the 69-year-old drug trafficker to be extradited from the United States to Mexico, as well as other requests related to his sentence.
“Some of these documents are meaningless and none of them have legal validity. Therefore, all of them are dismissed“said Brian Cogan, of the Court for the Eastern District of New York, through a statement, after “El Chapo” sent him five cards with different requests in the last two weeks.
According to what was stated by the EFE news agency, since last Thursday, April 23, the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel has sent handwritten letters in English to the Court for the Eastern District of New York to request his extradition to Mexicowhere he was allegedly “treated fairly while he was incarcerated.”
“I ask the district courts to respect my rights to be returned to my country and to investigate the charges for the rape of my verdict, for the sake of the fairness of federal law,” Guzmán Loera wrote in one of his letters, which reached the court on Thursday April 30 and this has been made public Monday, May 4.
The letters of “El Chapo”
Through his letters, “El Chapo” Guzmán asked for explanations about the verdict of his trial and described his sentence as “unfair“, so he questioned his conviction and requested his extradition to Mexico so that his family could visit him, because the former Mexican drug trafficker has at least 10 children recognized from three marriages different.
However, the United States federal judge, Brian Coganof the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, rejected the five letters from Joaquín Guzmán Loera, all handwritten and in Englishso “El Chapo” will continue in a maximum security prison in Coloradoknown as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies”.
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This is because, in December 2019, “El Chapo” was found guilty by a popular jury of ten crimes of drug trafficking in a process that lasted almost four months and that went down in history as the largest drug trafficking trial carried out in the United States, so he was sent to the maximum security prison ADX Florence.
Therefore, since he was sentenced to life sentence For more than 30 additional years, Guzmán has attempted to appeal the sentence. However, he has not yet made progress in any of the cases, so he will remain in jail. safer of America, since it is designed for a extreme isolation.
ADX Florence Prison
According to the American television network TelemundoADX Florence is a United States federal prison, classified as maximum security and located in the county of FremontColorado, which is why it is known as the “Alcatraz of the Rocky Mountains”, a name attributed to its administrator, the country’s Department of Justice.
The main function ADX Florence is prisoner confinement men that the federal prison system considers “maximum danger” and that require much stricter control, which is why they spend almost 23 hours a day in solitary confinement inside their cells, built entirely of concrete, including the bed.