How El Chapo tried to negotiate with the US government

• His lawyers recommended against negotiation.
• El Chapo did it to get out of prison earlier.
• It happened before he was sentenced.

Recent revelations exposed the idea that Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s lawyers presented to him to avoid major problems with the United States authorities. However, the capo wanted to «take things into his own hands» and tried to propose a deal. Today we tell you about how El Chapo tried to negotiate with the US government.

Joaquín «El Chapo» Guzmán agreed to be extradited to the United States because his lawyers told him that the maximum sentence that would be imposed on him in the neighboring country was 15 years in prison, according to Infobae.

How El Chapo tried to negotiate with the US

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This was revealed in the recently published book Las Puertas del Infierno, by the psychologist and criminologist Mónica Ramírez Cano, who had the opportunity to interview the capo and carry out an in-depth analysis of his behavior when he was imprisoned in Mexico.

«Joaquín, but are you sure you want to be extradited?» Ramírez Cano asked El Chapo Guzmán days after he met with US authorities to discuss the issue of his extradition, as revealed in her book. “It seems that I don’t have any direct charges. My lawyer told me that the maximum I can get is 15 years, but he can negotiate for eight. I will get as much as eight to 10 years in prison,” Mónica says the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel replied.

El Chapo didn’t fight his extradition

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Ramírez Cano, surprised by what Guzmán Loera had just revealed, asked him again: «But, Joaquín, wasn’t that the reason you ran away the first time?» Referring to El Chapo Guzmán’s first escape on January 19, 2001 from the high security prison in Puente Grande, Jalisco.

«Oh, yes, and the second one too… my lawyers told me that I was going to end up in prison without seeing the light of day for the rest of my life, without seeing my family, without anything, listen… but if I had known, I wouldn’t have escaped. It was a mistake to have left (…) but as I saw things, I said yes, I’m going,» El Chapo explained to Ramírez Cano.

He thought his sentence would be different

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What Guzmán Loera did not know at that time is that this decision would mark him for the rest of his life, instead of 15 years, he received a life sentence in the United States for 10 crimes related to drug trafficking and money laundering after a trial that lasted nearly four months.

With this, psychologist Mónica Ramírez Cano, who was able to carry out an in-depth analysis of El Chapo’s behavior while he was incarcerated in the Altiplano maximum security prison in Mexico, provided details of the psychological problems that El Chapo suffers, according to Infobae.

El Chapo faces the consequences of his actions

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The consequences to his mental and physical health as a result of the «severe measures of deprivation of liberty» to which he is subjected, can be seen in El Chapo now: deterioration of the personality, impaired cognitive and sensory functions, and increased depression due to lack of support networks.

According to El universo, on Monday, June 6, 2022, the United States Supreme Court refused to review the case of Joaquín Guzmán, despite the fact that his defense had asked the highest court to review the legality of his extradition and the restrictions in the Colorado jail that their lawyers described as “excessive and punitive”.