Jailed drug lord El Chapo is lonely in his Supermax jail cell and has begged ... trends now
Former drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán is now begging a federal court in New York to reinstate his phone call and visitation rights while he languishes at the ADX Florence super maximum security prison in Colorado.
The 67-year-old co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, who once boasted about being behind the killing of 2,000 to 3,000 people, moaned that he has been feeling lonely ever since his rights as a prisoner were stripped away in a letter he penned on March 20.
In the missive, which was filed in court Tuesday, Guzmán pleaded with judge Brian Cogan to allow his wife Emma Coronel, to visit him and asked that he be permitted to talk to couple's twin daughters over the phone.
'Sorry to bother you again with the request that I have asked you before with regards to my wife, Emma Coronel,' Guzmán wrote in the letter.
'I ask that you please authorize her to visit me and to bring my daughters to visit me, since my daughters can only visit me when they are on school break, since they are studying in Mexico.'
The former cartel boss showed his softer side despite proudly running a drug empire that saw thousands slaughtered - and millions more affected by his illegal wares.
Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán penned a letter to federal judge Brian Cogan in New York requesting that his wife be allowed to visit him in prison and that the two 15-minute phone calls with the couple's 12-year-old twin daughters be reinstated
Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's wife, Emma Coronel, was released from U.S. federal custody in September 2023 after she completed 31 months of a 36-month sentence that was handed down by a Washington, D.C. federal court in November 2021 after she pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering
El Chapo spends 23 hours locked in a 7-by-12-foot concrete cell at ADX Florence, a super maximum security jail in Colorado
Guzmán also petitioned Cogan to restore his right to speak with the 12-year-old girls twice a month for 15 minutes.
He claimed that he had not spoken with them since May 2023, when the jail stopped authorizing the phone calls.
'I have asked when they are going to give me a call with my daughters and the staff here told me that the FBI agent who monitors the calls does not answer,' he wrote. 'That's all they've told me. I ask you to please continue giving me the two calls that you authorized me per month. I don't understand why the prosecutor who is in charge of the SAMs Rules stopped authorizing calls with my daughters.'
The former kingpin spends 23 hours locked in a 7-by-12-foot concrete cell with
