Mexican Cartel Leader El Chapo Wants To Finish His Prison Sentence In The U.S. 

“El Chapo” and his right hand man captured following manhunt.

According to The Daily Mail, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, undoubtedly one the world’s most powerful, violent and feared druglords is strongly contemplating pleading guilty in the U.S. for his international cartel operations under one condition: that he spend his time behind bars in a minimum security U.S. prison. 


To some the request seems outlandish not only because of the complexity of his crime syndicate which has wreaked havoc for decades from Mexico to the U.S., but also because Mr. Guzman has escaped not one, but two maximum security prisons in Mexico. His first time ‘on the run’ spanned 13 years!

Only time will tell if the U.S. will consider his request and allow him more than ‘one hour of sunshine’ a day in minimum security prison.

Via The Daily Mail:

The arrest of one of El Chapo most trusted advisers comes as it is claimed the drugs lord is willing to plead guilty in the U.S. – as long as he is not jailed in a maximum-security prison.

The Sinaloa cartel leader believes he would enjoy better treatment in an American cell compared to the ‘extreme freezing conditions’ of his current Mexican lock-up where he ‘fears for his life’, his lawyer revealed in an exclusive interview with Univision last week.

However, he will only plead guilty if US prosecutors promise to spare him from its most brutal institutions ‘where he would not see the light of the sun for more than an hour a day’.

Mexican and U.S. officials want to have El Chapo tried and imprisoned in America because of his track record of escaping from Mexican prisons.

Since being recaptured in January, the Sinaloa cartel leader has been held in the same maximum-security prison he escaped from just outside Mexico City.

In a bid to prevent another breakout, Mexican jail workers have reportedly been moving El Chapo from cell-to-cell on a daily basis.

El Chapo’s Female Financial Operator Arrested In Mexico

Valencia, also known as La Patrona, is accused of being in charge of cash for the Sinaloa drugs cartel.

The woman who is allegedly El Chapo’s financial operator was arrested in Mexico and charged with being in charge of cartel operations.

The alleged queen pin also known as ‘La Patrona’ was arrested in Culiacan in Sinaloa state, where El Chapo, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman, was captured in January after escaping a maximum security prison.

Guadalupe Fernandez Valencia, 55, is wanted in America after being accused of trafficking cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the country as well as money laundering.

She was also added to the kingpin list by the U.S. Treasury Department, meaning any assets she holds in American can be seized.

Mexican Drug Lord Hid Out In A Bat Filled Cave Before Being Caught After Girlfriend Brings A Birthday Cake

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Cartel capo Servando Gomez Martinez.

“I killed them because they were assholes who snitched on me, when I didn’t do anything to them, and only helped everybody,” Gomez said in an audio file released in November.

“But I know I’ll eventually pay for it.”

Three months later, the leader of the Knights Templar cartel fell.

A former primary school teacher, Gomez, known widely as “La Tuta,” was apprehended in Morelia, Michoacan state. It was the Mexican government’s most significant arrest since the capture of notorious Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, which occurred almost exactly a year before.

The arrest came at around 3 am at a hot dog stand in downtown Morelia, after what the Mexican president referred to as “months of investigation.” The detention, authorities said, unfolded without incident.

In a video released to Mexican news outlets taken in the hours after Gomez’s arrest, the drug lord appears at ease but recalcitrant, saying he was arrested “because I’m a criminal.”

“Because I led a gang of pendejos,” or idiots, he said.

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Cave where Mexican drug capo Servando Gomez Martinez lived while in hiding.

Birthday cake mistake

The Gomez capture was marked by a series of events reminiscent of the days Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein spent in hiding before he was captured.

Gomez, increasingly isolated by the pursuing authorities and pressured by his cartel and autodefensa rivals, evaded police for months by hiding out in a bat-filled cave, Mexico’s federal police commissioner told the news agency EFE in an interview.

The cave had previously served as a holding cell for detainees. Gomez, 49, spent his final free months in “misery,” commissioner Enrique Galindo told EFE.

By early February, authorities had narrowed the search down to one of ten properties. A messenger whose phone was tapped finally led authorities to his location.

On February 6, a girlfriend of Gomez named Maria Antonieta Luna Ávalos visited him along with others who brought food and drinks, including a chocolate birthday cake, which was found in the refrigerator at his home at time of his arrest.

Hours after Gomez’s capture, his brother Flavio Gomez Martinez was detained in the city of Merida on the Yucatan peninsula, in possession of firearms and narcotics, authorities said. Six other people linked to Gomez have also detained.

“We now have 90 of the 122 most dangerous [people] detained,” Mexican interior minister Osorio Chong said.


Read the FULL STORY on Vice News.

See more pictures, including the now infamous chocolate birthday cake that led to his capture.