{"id":12630,"date":"2016-03-03T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=12630"},"modified":"2016-03-03T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:16:11","slug":"cartel-corner-59-el-chapo-hates-mexican-prison-so-much-he-wants-to-be-extradited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/03\/cartel-corner-59-el-chapo-hates-mexican-prison-so-much-he-wants-to-be-extradited\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartel Corner #59: El Chapo Hates Mexican Prison So Much He Wants to Be Extradited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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? \u00a0Hmmmm, Enquiring Minds want to know.-SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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At the same time, the drug lord’s wife has\u00a0warned the Mexican authorities that they will live to regret her husband’s extradition because of the compromising information he can reveal.<\/p>\n

Both declarations\u00a0suggest that El Chapo has accepted that extradition is inevitable, and is trying to exercise some control over when and how it happens.<\/p>\n

“When I saw him yesterday, he was desperate and defeated. I would say he was a broken man,” Jos\u00e9 Refugio Rodr\u00edguez, 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.”<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez 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 \u2014 six months after escaping through a tunnel from his cell in the same facility.<\/p>\n

The lawyer, who made similar comments in a number of interviews on Wednesday,\u00a0said the main problem is they won’t let El Chapo\u00a0sleep and that this has prompted him to develop dangerously\u00a0high blood pressure that means he has constant headaches, among other problems.<\/p>\n

“They are killing him,” Rodr\u00edguez 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.”<\/p>\n

In the last couple of weeks El Chapo’s legal team has also alleged that his visiting rights have been restricted and his privacy annihilated through constant surveillance, even when going to the bathroom. He has also complained of being cold all the time, and harassment from police dogs.<\/p>\n

The authorities themselves have accepted that they have put special measures in place to guard the country’s most notorious prisoner \u2014 including waking him every four hours \u2014 though they insist that these are permitted by existing protocols.<\/p>\n

‘The moment that he is gone they are going to wish that he had never left.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the Remainder at Vice News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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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? \u00a0Hmmmm, Enquiring Minds want to know.-SF At the same time, the drug lord’s wife has\u00a0warned the Mexican authorities that they will live to regret her husband’s extradition because of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2636,2351,2717,13,74,3688,2620,2352],"tags":[5112,5113,2637,5114,5115,2902,3125,1699],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}