The 64-year-old former Sinaloa cartel chief is serving a life sentence at the Maximum Security Administrative Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.
Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, the 64-year-old former head of the Sinaloa cartel, spent one more Christmas in the Maximum Security Administrative Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado (USA), better known by its acronym ADX or as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies”.
In this prison the Mexican complies with the life sentence to which he was sentenced in 2019, for trafficking millions of dollars in drugs and conspiring to assassinate his enemies, all while running the Sinaloa Cartel. In addition, he was ordered to deliver $ 12.7 billion as compensation to the United States.
Menu
And for these Christmas festivities, the former drug lord had the opportunity to taste a special menu. According to the portal TMZ, in prison the inmates were served as a Christmas menu Cornish hen and peanut butter tart for dessert. In addition, the prison also held Christmas activities such as drawing, painting and a musical talent show.
Since he was extradited to the United States in January 2017, and until shortly after his sentence was announced, Guzmán remained in the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center, a federal prison in the Manhattan district. Finally on July 19, 2019 He was transferred to ADX Prison, considered the safest federal prison in the US, from which an inmate was never able to escape.
Leaks
‘El Chapo’ escaped twice from Mexican prisons considered maximum security.
He was captured for the first time in June 1993, on the border between Mexico and Guatemala. At the time, authorities sentenced him to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of murder and drug trafficking.
El ‘Chapo’ Guzmán and the testimonies of his steps in prison
In January 2001, the drug lord escaped from jail in a laundry cart, with the help of at least 71 accomplices, 15 of them, officials from the Puente Grande prison, in Mexico, where he was serving the sentence.
He was captured for the second time in February 2014, in the state of Sinaloa. However, in 2015 he escaped again through an elaborate tunnel that connected his cell in the El Altiplano high-security prison and a house under construction in the Santa Juanita neighborhood.
The times that Chapo Guzmán escaped from prison
On January 8, 2016, then Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto reported on Twitter that the drug trafficker had been captured again. He was located thanks to his meetings with actors and actresses, due to his intention to record an autobiographical film. (I)
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