Abogados
de Guzmán Loera amenazan con revelar lista de políticos financiados por su cliente
Los
abogados de Joaquín Guzmán iniciaron este viernes 4 de marzo una
huelga de hambre al frente del penal del Altiplano, en el Estado de México,
para denunciar la supuesta violación de los derechos humanos de su cliente.
¡Algo insólito en el proceso de justicia penal!
José Luis González Meza, Juan
Pablo Badillo y Carlos Urrutia arribaron
al Altiplano y anunciaron que en breve darán a conocer el listado de partidos y
candidatos que recibieron dinero del narcotraficante para financiar sus
campañas electorales.
Ojala! - quiera Alá- que den a conocer las listas.
Asimismo,
insistieron en que la autoridad penitenciaria federal quiere “matar o volver
loco” a su cliente porque le limita los alimentos, la comunicación y el
descanso, sobretodo el sueño.
Además este
viernes, el diario británico The
Guardian ( -http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/04/el-chapo-daughter-joaquin-guzman-california) publicó una entrevista que le realizó a Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz, hija
mayor del presuntro criminal quien reveló que el líder del Cártel del Pacífico financió la
elección de varios políticos mexicanos y entró dos veces secretamente a Estados
Unidos.
En entrevista concedida al periódico británico, Guzmán Ortiz también mencionó que el aún considerado líder del Cártel de Sinaloa entró dos veces secretamente a Estados Unidos para visitar a sus familiares; sin embargo, el mismo medio precisó que las acusaciones de Rosa Isela no pudieron ser verificadas con pruebas y advirtió que “probablemente serán rechazadas por las autoridades mexicanas”.
“Mi papá no es un criminal. El Gobierno rompió su promesa. Era un pacto que no respetaron. Ahora que lo capturan dicen que es un criminal, un asesino. Pero no dicen cuando se les pregunta por el dinero para sus campañas. ¡Son unos hipócritas!”, afirmó Rosa Isela a los corresponsales José Luis Montenegro en la Ciudad de México, y Rory Carroll en Los Ángeles California.
Guzmán Ortiz, de 39 años, hizo estas afirmaciones en una serie de entrevistas con The Guardian y afirmó haber consultado previamente con su padre para poder entablarlas. Además, dijo que “funcionarios corruptos” de México lo ayudaron a evadir un operativo de recaptura, después de una entrevista que tuvo en la clandestinidad con los actores Sean Penn y Kate del Castillo en la sierra de Sinaloa en octubre pasado.
Rosa Isela dijo que su padre antes de su captura había planeado pasar las riendas del Cártel de Sinaloa a su medio hermano, Iván Archivaldo, pero fue traicionado por su socio, Ismael Zambada, “El Mayo”, y por el Gobierno mexicano que “rompió un acuerdo para proteger a ‘El Chapo’”.
“Es la primera vez que la hija del líder del Cártel de Sinaloa habla con un medio. The Guardian ha visto varios documentos que confirman su identidad, incluyendo su certificado de nacimiento y tarjeta de votación mexicana. La identidad también fue confirmada por Francisco Villa Gurrola, un ministro evangélico en la ciudad natal de Badiraguato de ‘El Chapo’, que es amigo de Consuelo Loera, la madre del capo”, precisó el diario.
The Guardian expuso que las afirmaciones de Rosa Isela sobra las visitas de “El Chapo” a California se plantean cuestiones acerca de la inteligencia de Estados Unidos y la seguridad fronteriza.
“Como cabeza de la organización criminal más grande y rica del mundo, él era el blanco más preciado de la guerra contra las drogas”, se afirma en la nota.
Guzmán Ortiz aseguró que su padre cruzó la frontera en 2015 para visitar a sus familiares y ver la casa de cinco recámaras y un enorme jardín que compró para Rosa Isela y sus cuatro hijos. El periódico inglés dijo que la entrevista se concedió a condición de que su ubicación no fuera revelada.
“Mi papá depositó el dinero en una cuenta de un banco a través de un abogado y, un tiempo después, vino a ver la casa, su casa. Vino dos veces”, aseguró Guzmán Ortiz.
La mujer se negó a especificar cómo “El Chapo” cruzó de ida y vuelta esa frontera tan fuertemente resguardada, diciendo únicamente que “yo le pregunté lo mismo, créame”.
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Californian, businesswoman, ‘narco junior’:
Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz, daughter of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán.
Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz, daughter of Joaquín
‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, runs a small chain of carwashes, beauty salons and cafes in
California. Photograph: Courtesy of Rosa Isela Guzman Ortiz
José
Luis Montenegro
The Guardian Friday
4 March 2016 12.00 GMT
A
balmy southern California afternoon, tourists and locals mingling in the coffee
shop, and at first glance there was little to distinguish the 39-year-old
American from other regulars.
Dressed
casually in a black and white dress with black leggings and boots, she sipped
her coffee and talked about work, kids and the importance of staying in touch
with family. Her small chain of carwashes, beauty salons and cafes was going
well, she said.
There
was another hint of a life less ordinary. Her features bore a distinct
resemblance to a man whose face had long gazed from newspapers and televisions
– a man hated and feared and admired for creating the world’s biggest and
richest criminal syndicate.
She
was Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz, the eldest daughter of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán,
the head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and she was sitting down with the Guardian
in the United States, her adopted home, to give her first ever media interview.
“Did
you know he’s called Archivaldo and not Joaquín?” she said. “My dad isn’t a millionaire
like Forbes says. The magazine said you could count all the millions my old man
supposedly had. That’s not true, the Mexican government invented that.”
In
the three-hour interview and subsequent telephone and Skype conversations,
Guzmán Ortiz revealed her hitherto unreported life in the US and made striking
claims about her father, including the allegation that he visited her in
California.
“He
came twice,” she said. Asked how one of the world’s most wanted fugitives
crossed the heavily guarded border she smiled. “I asked him the same, believe
me.”
Guzmán
Ortiz granted the interview in July 2015 on condition her exact location in
California not be disclosed to protect her and her children’s privacy.
Verification of certain details – and the hunt and recapture of her father,
whom she consulted about the interview – delayed publication until now.
A
taskforce of navy marines and police caught Chapo in Los Mochis, a town on
Mexico’s Pacific coast, on 8 January after a wild gun battle and chase through
sewers and streets. He is now in Altiplano, a maximum security jail north of
Mexico City.
Earlier
this week, the drug lord instructed his lawyers to stop fighting efforts to
extradite him to the US, apparently in the hopes of a lighter sentence. But at
61, Guzmán may well end his days in a US prison cell, the final chapter to an
extraordinary life which saw an impoverished orange-seller rise up the narco
ranks to infamy and fortune.
El
Chapo, which means Shorty, allegedly ran tonnes of marijuana, cocaine and other
drugs to the US from the wooded sierras of Sinaloa, a redoubt protected by
corrupt officials, an army of gunmen and inhabitants who considered him a narco
Robin Hood.
El
Chapo is a family man being 'slowly tortured' in prison, says wife in first TV
interview
His
organisation – the most powerful trafficking group in the Americas – has
exerted its influence from New York to Buenos Aires, and while the Sinaloa
cartel is broadly considered less sadistic than some of its rivals, El Chapo’s
group is believed to be responsible for thousands of deaths.
In
the interview Guzmán Ortiz ranged over cartel restructuring and betrayals, the
alleged bribery of senior politicians, and El Chapo’s plan to retire. She also
spoke of her friendships with a younger generation of “narco juniors” – the
second generation of cartel families who have grown up enjoying extraordinary
wealth and privilege.
Guzmán
Ortiz showed private family photographs of her father, plus letters he sent
from jail. The Guardian independently corroborated some details but could not
verify her allegations against senior Mexican politicians or her accounts of
her father’s business dealings.
The
picture that emerged was of a family inhabiting a strange netherworld of
notoriety and anonymity, proud and defiant yet also coy and – since Chapo’s
capture – resentful. His illicit empire bonded them as social outcasts while at
the same time separating them from the patriarch when he was in hiding or in
jail.
Despite
El Chapo’s fearsome reputation, Guzmán Ortiz depicted her father as a family
man who built a successful business with Mexican government approval, only to
be betrayed by rival cartel members and politicians.
“My
dad is not a criminal. The government is guilty,” she said.
She
did not confirm or deny her father smuggled drugs (something he admitted to
Sean Penn in January’s Rolling Stone interview) but said he lived humbly and
had retired from the family “business” in 2014 before being captured. “My dad
had passed the torch to my brother Iván Archivaldo and planned to step down and
rest.”
Her
account cast new light on a story shadowed in rumour and myth.
The
short, stocky young man known Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera was beginning to
make a name as a courier and enforcer for the then dominant Guadalajara cartel
when he had a relationship in the mid-1970s with a schoolteacher named María
Luisa Ortiz, which produced their daughter Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz. She was
born in Zapopan municipality in Jalisco state in November 1976.
The
Guardian has viewed several identity documents including her birth certificate.
Guzmán Ortiz’s identity was also confirmed by Francisco Villa Gurrola, an
evangelical minister in El Chapo’s hometown of Badiraguato, who met El Chapo in
2012 and is a close friend of his 87-year-old mother Consuelo Loera.
Of
Rosa, he said: “I know her and I can tell you she’s a good woman – she’s the first
daughter that Joaquín had with a woman in Jalisco.”
After
her parents’ relationship ended Guzmán Ortiz was raised by her mother and a
stepfather. He was abusive, she said, and at the age of 10 she stabbed him,
landing her in a juvenile treatment centre in Tijuana.
Upon
release she reconnected with her father. In 1992, aged 15, he sent her to
Scripps Mercy, a private Catholic teaching hospital in San Diego, to be treated
for potentially cancerous tumours on her back.
In
a sign of the closed – and arguably feudal – narco world, Chapo told his
daughter he wanted her to marry Vicente Zambada Niebla, also known as El
Vicentillo, the 16-year-old son of another drug lord, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
Both fathers were annoyed, however, when she became pregnant before the
marriage. Guzmán Ortiz had a second child with El Vicentillo after they
married.
In
May 1993 her father’s profession almost cost both their lives. They were in a
parking lot at Guadalajara airport, she said, when a group of hitmen dispatched
by the rival Tijuana cartel targeted the wrong car, killing a Roman Catholic
cardinal, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, and six other people.
“On
the day of the assassination I was in a car with my father when they started
shooting from every direction. We didn’t know who it was that got killed, but
later we heard it was the cardinal. My father had nothing to do with it,” she
said.
Amid
national outrage over the massacre Chapo sent his daughter to live with an aunt
in California, who she had visited regularly from an early age. He was caught a
few weeks later and spent the next eight years directing his growing empire
from behind bars.
When
extradition to the US loomed in 2001 he broke out from Puente Grande prison
near Guadalajara, reportedly in a laundry cart, and spent the next 13 years on
the run, mostly in his Sinaloa heartland. From here he oversaw a complex
business which flooded Chicago, Dallas and other US cities with narcotics and
was repeatedly ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the most powerful people in
the world.
In
contrast to her father’s dramas, Guzmán Ortiz said she spent two quiet decades
across the border, becoming a US citizen and learning English, which she speaks
fluently, though with an accent.
She
said she studied computer science at the University of Phoenix, hairdressing
and cosmetology at the Marinello Schools of Beauty in Riverside, and used money
from her father to open several businesses.
This
attracted the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for suspected
money laundering, resulting in 15 days’ detention and a $50,000 bond, she said.
She insisted the funding and businesses were legitimate. “My businesses are all
in order – the FBI could not prove anything,” she said, before adding: “The
hair salons, the soda fountains, the carwashes aren’t in my name any more.”
Asked
to confirm that Guzmán Ortiz had been apprehended and detained in San Diego in
2011, special agent Amy Roderick, an FBI spokeswoman, said: “The arresting
agency on that case was US customs and border protection.” Ralph DeSio, a
spokesman for US customs and border protection, said the agency could not
discuss specific cases due to privacy laws.
Meanwhile,
said Guzmán Ortiz, El Chapo was hoping to retire, and intended to hand the
reins to her half-brother Iván Archivaldo. But, she said, the plan dismayed his
cartel colleague El Mayo – one of the last surviving veterans of the Sinaloa
cartel.
Chapo
was supposed to meet him at a hotel in Mazatlán in February 2014 when
authorities swooped and recaptured him.
“He
had already retired, it was just a question of smoothing it with El Mayo, but
it seems the old man didn’t much like the idea,” she said. “We’re completely
sure El Mayo betrayed him. They used to always meet in private places and my
dad found it strange that he had suggested that place.”
The
government of President Enrique Peña Nieto trumpeted the capture as a triumph
and flew Chapo to Altiplano high-security prison.
Guzmán
Ortiz said she visited her father in the maximum security facility and that he
expressed confidence about getting out – he vowed to attend a family reunion in
November 2015 at his mother’s house in Sinaloa.
Emma Coronel, the wife of El Chapo, interviewed
on television in Mexico. Photograph: Telemundo.com
In
July 2015 the drug lord escaped again – this time fleeing Altiplano near Mexico
City through an elaborate tunnel. It was widely interpreted as a humiliating
blow to the government but according to his daughter, senior officials had
approved of the breakout. “My dad’s escape was an agreement,” she said. There
was no way to verify that claim.
Guzmán
Ortiz said that after the escape, her father visited the US in late 2015. The
motive, she said, was family: in addition to her and her children, who live
south of Los Angeles, he wished to see his own twin daughters and wife Emma
Coronel, a former beauty queen, who live in LA.
Chapo
also wished to view his gift to Guzmán Ortiz: a house with five bedrooms, three
bathrooms, a game room, a large garden and a garage with space for four cars.
“My dad deposited the money in a bank account with a lawyer and a while after
he came to see the house, his house.” She declined to elaborate, saying she did
not have Chapo’s permission.
Breezy
and cheerful at the interview in the coffee shop, Guzmán Ortiz presented
herself as a loyal daughter and successful entrepreneur. When her phone buzzed
she smiled. “Sorry, it’s my employees. They call me all the time.”
She
is separated from El Vicentillo – who was arrested in Mexico City in 2009 and
subsequently extradited to the US – and is now partnered with the nephew of
another drug lord, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, with whom she has had two
children, bringing her total to four.
