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This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, is serving a life sentence in the maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado.
Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán sent a letter to federal judge Brian Cogan on March 20. This was presented in a New York court, according to Telemundo, published by El Financiero.
The document states the Mexican’s request that his wife, Emma Coronel, and her daughters be able to visit him.
The drug trafficker also asked to have the right to two monthly phone calls, 15 minutes each and explained that since May 2023 he has not had access to this. He argued that the action was an act of discrimination.
‘El Chapo’ sent a letter in August 2023 to the same judge with the requests and now insisted, since his wife, Emma Coronel, is free.
Emma Coronel served her sentence and now she is free
Emma Coronel was released from prison on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, after more than two and a half years in prison after being accused of helping the administration of the Sinaloa Cartel, led by her husband.
Coronel, who has been detained since February 2021, entered a community confinement regime at the end of last May, with which the authorities carry out a transition process that allows those who were in prison to reintegrate into society.
The possibility opens up for her to visit Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, who is in the maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado.
However, according to expert testimony to Telemundo, Emma Coronel is on parole, and during the next four years she must prove that she has no connection with the Sinaloa Cartel, so in this period, it is possible that she will not be able to return to Mexico.
During the first four years of her freedom, she must remain in the judicial district in which she is assigned, and she must notify the government of any change of address or employment she enters.