Was the reward of 5 million dollars ever collected for the capture of ‘Chapo’ Guzmán?

Before the capture of the narco, the Government of Mexico, in its constant search for information about the former head of the Sinaloa cartel, offered a separate payment of around 5 million dollars as a reward, since the Chapo Guzmán was one of the most wanted and most feared men in Latin America.

The times that Chapo Guzmán escaped from prison

The definitive fall of his freedom was in January 2017, after being extradited from Mexico to the United States (2016), where he is currently. Nevertheless, because it is a federal criminal case, what is not known is who reported him and who received the happy reward.

The Department of State cannot make such information public, this in order to protect the integrity and identity of the people who provide the information, as indicated by the agency in a statement sent to Univision News. The institution added that “depending on the information provided, multiple rewards can be paid for a single designated goal.”

In addition, no information has been leaked by the Government of Mexico, which in isolation offered 3 million dollars.

It was in 2015 when the National Security Commission reported in a statement that the Mexican authorities printed 100,000 brochures with photographs of the Chapo, which were distributed on Mexican highways, and it was also pointed out that any citizen could collect the money in case of providing valuable information that influenced the capture of the drug trafficker.

This is the life of “Chapo” Guzmán in the ADMAX prison in the United States

The Chapo currently He is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison (ADX Florence) in Colorado, United States, without privileges, visits, television or correspondence, his lawyer told the press, Jeffrey Lichtman. In addition, the same drug trafficker denounced that he spends his days in “cruel and inhuman prison conditions, in permanent isolation, which amounts to physical and mental torture.” (I)