The little monkey called boots was a gift from the kingpin to his youngest daughters.
It is called “Boots”, like the little monkey that Dora the Explorer has and it was a gift for the youngest daughters of Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán, Emaly and María Joaquina. What no one imagined is that the exotic mascot would be a key piece in finding the capo’s whereabouts, after his escape from the Altiplano in 2015.
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A year before (2014) when Guzmán was captured, the mother of the twins, Emma Coronel decided to move very close to the Federal Center for Social Re-adaptation Number 1, El Altiplano, in Almoloya (Mexico) to facilitate the visits allowed and that the Younger daughters of the drug trafficker do not lose connection with him. The entire family changed residence and took the monkey with them, this is confirmed by the official investigation.
However, a few days before the escape of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, on July 11, 2015, Emma Coronel, Emaly and María Joaquina again changed residence, but this time Boots did not go with them.
When the clan was reunited, the little girls invaded by grief, asked their father to rescue the pet. This is how El Chapo entrusted his relatives with the mission of finding and transferring the monkey legally. The authorities, according to the Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola, found unsuccessful attempts to obtain sanitary permits for the animal to fly to Culiacán, Sinaloa. From Semarnat to veterinary and Aeroméxico. “Nobody” wanted to sign the papers to authorize the trip, so the only option that was left was to move him by road, thanks to the help of his brother-in-law, Édgar Coronel Aispuro.
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The traces were already an indication of something. So the authorities went on the trail. One day of the journey, the investigators discovered Boots in the state of Sinaloa, in a vehicle Mustang colored red, which belongs to Emma’s brother. “They knew that the pet could lead them to their goal,” said Loret de Mola.
The definitive capture of Joaquín ‘Chapo’ Guzmán
In 2016, the drug trafficker was recaptured after his escape from El Altiplano prison, through the ‘Black Swan’ operation, when he was identified as inmate 3870 before having his hair and mustache cut off. And regarding the whereabouts of the animal, the authorities have not mentioned anything; It is also not known if it is still the pet of Guzmán’s youngest daughters.
The investigation was led by the Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN), now the National Intelligence Center, and coordinated by the Ministry of the Interior, the then Attorney General’s Office (PGR), the Ministry of the Navy, and the Mexican Army. (I)
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