Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias “El Chapo”former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, stated in a letter in which he again requested his extradition to Mexico that the Government of that country is responsible “for all violent crimes” registered.
Guzmán’s statements appear in a handwritten letter in English that the drug trafficker sent on May 1 to the Federal Court for the Eastern District of New York, but that the authorities received until May 6 and published this Thursday.
“The Mexican Government was responsible for all violent crimes; I didn’t hurt anyone“Guzmán says in the letter.
According to Guzmán, The crimes for which he was convicted “are based on a single witness.”
“In my country I was not known for bad things; the good things I have done in Mexico were wanting the family to eat together and have a great life,” he said.
This is the sixth letter that Guzmán sent to the New York court in recent weeks.
The publication of the drug trafficker’s most recent letter occurred after a judge rejected Guzmán’s request to be extradited to Mexico, considering that his arguments “they were meaningless” and had “no legal validity.”
In addition to blaming the Government of Mexico, Guzmán also attacked the former DEA official who He led the operation in which he was captured.
“I thank the courts for accepting this letter in defense of my impartiality to seek another verdict on the evidence that was not conclusive,” said Guzmán.
In 2019, Guzmán was found guilty of 10 drug trafficking crimes and sentenced to life sentence in the ADX Florence maximum security prison, in Colorado.