Mexico’s as soon as all powerful drug lord, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is claiming he can not get telephone calls or visits within the most safety U.S. jail the place he’s serving a life sentence.
El Chapo penned his criticism to District Courtroom Decide Brian M. Cogan within the Japanese District of New York in late March, complaining that he hadn’t been capable of converse along with his twin daughters.
“The facility stopped giving me calls with my daughters and I haven’t had calls with them for seven months,” he wrote. “I have asked when they are going to give me a call with my daughters and the staff here told me that the FBI agent who monitors the calls does not answer, that’s all they’ve told me.
“I ask that you just please authorize her to go to me and to convey my daughters to go to me, since my daughters can solely go to me when they’re on faculty break, since they’re finding out in Mexico,” Guzmán wrote.
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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the head of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, being escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City following his capture in the beach resort town of Mazatlan. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
El Chapo said that being barred from receiving outside communication was “unprecedented discrimination.”
“It’s unprecedented discrimination towards me,” Guzmán complained. “They’ve determined to punish me by not letting me speak to my daughters.”
In this Jan. 19, 2017 file photo provided by U.S. law enforcement, authorities escort Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, center, from a plane to a waiting caravan of SUVs at Long Island MacArthur Airport, in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. (U.S. law enforcement via AP)
Cogan responded last week, denying Guzmán’s request.
He said once the drug lord was convicted, all preparations had been within the U.S. Bureau of Jail’s palms.
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“Accordingly, his request have to be denied,” the judge said.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by soldiers during a presentation in Mexico City, January 8, 2016. (REUTERS/Tomas Bravo/File Photo)
Known as Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Guzmán was convicted in New York on Feb. 12, 2019, of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation.
He was sentenced to life in prison in July 2019.
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Guzmán ran a cartel responsible for smuggling mountains of cocaine and other drugs into the United States during his 25-year reign, prosecutors said.
Under his leadership, the Sinaloa cartel, one of the world’s largest drug trafficking organizations, was responsible for multiple murders and smuggling operations in the United States.
In this undated photo provided by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, left, poses with an unidentified man. (United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York)
El Chapo also notoriously escaped from multiple Mexican prisons prior to his life sentence imprisonment at America’s most secure prison – Administrative Maximum U.S. Penitentiary, or ADX, in Florence, Colorado.
He first escaped from prison in 2001, and then spent more than a decade on the run before he was recaptured, only to escape again in 2015 via a mile-long tunnel dug into the shower in his cell.
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The Related Press and Fox Information’ Stephanie Pagones contributed to this report.
