Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has requested a federal judge to reinstate his telephone call and visiting privileges at the supermax prison in Colorado, where he is serving a life sentence.
In a letter addressed to federal judge Brian Cogan, dated March 20 and filed Tuesday in a New York district court, Guzmán apologized for reiterating his request concerning his wife, Emma Coronel.
"I ask that you please authorize her to visit me and to bring my daughters to visit me, since my daughters can only visit me when they are on school break, since they are studying in Mexico," he wrote.
Guzmán explained that his wife is the only person who can visit him in prison because she lives in California, and other relatives would require visas to visit him.
He also requested the continuation of the two 15-minute calls a month that the judge had authorized, stating that the facility stopped allowing him calls with his daughters in May 2023, and he hasn't had calls with them for seven months.
Guzmán expressed confusion as to why the calls were stopped, stating that he was informed by prison staff that the FBI agent who monitors the calls does not answer his inquiries. He pleaded with the judge to reinstate the authorized calls and visits, describing the situation as "unprecedented discrimination."
Guzmán was convicted in 2019 of conducting a continuing criminal enterprise, including large-scale narcotics violations and a murder conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracies, unlawful use of a firearm, and a money laundering conspiracy. Despite his attempts to overturn the conviction, a federal appeals court upheld it in January 2022, ruling that his claims lacked merit.
During Guzmán's leadership, the Sinaloa cartel imported more than 1 million kilograms of cocaine and hundreds of kilograms of heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine into the U.S.
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