Or is it ole’ Sneaky El Chapo just wants the chance for a paid group of serious pipe hitters to break him out during the transfer? Hmmmm, Enquiring Minds want to know.-SF
At the same time, the drug lord’s wife has warned the Mexican authorities that they will live to regret her husband’s extradition because of the compromising information he can reveal.
Both declarations suggest that El Chapo has accepted that extradition is inevitable, and is trying to exercise some control over when and how it happens.
“When I saw him yesterday, he was desperate and defeated. I would say he was a broken man,” José Refugio Rodríguez, Chapo’s main lawyer, told VICE News. “He told me to look for a way to reach an agreement with the US government [over extradition] because he can’t bear the treatment he is receiving any more.”
Rodríguez claimed the rights of the infamous chief of the Sinaloa cartel are being systematically violated in the Altiplano maximum-security prison where he has been housed since his recapture on January 8 — six months after escaping through a tunnel from his cell in the same facility.
The lawyer, who made similar comments in a number of interviews on Wednesday, said the main problem is they won’t let El Chapo sleep and that this has prompted him to develop dangerously high blood pressure that means he has constant headaches, among other problems.
“They are killing him,” Rodríguez said. “The sleep deprivation is now so bad he fears he could die at any time and that is why, out of desperation, he wants to reach a deal.”
The authorities themselves have accepted that they have put special measures in place to guard the country’s most notorious prisoner — including waking him every four hours — though they insist that these are permitted by existing protocols.
‘The moment that he is gone they are going to wish that he had never left.’
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