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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

One Year After Sentencing, 'El Chapo' Wants Out of Supermax Prison

"MX" for Borderland Beat; CNN
Mexico's Attorney General Arely Gomez shows a picture of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman during a press conference in Mexico City on July 13, 2015. (Yuri Cortez/Getty Images)
A lawyer of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman said she is working to get the Mexican drug kingpin out of Colorado's Supermax prison through an appeal. His attorney has until August 21, 2020, to file the appeal. But the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says a favorable appeal is unlikely. El Chapo is serving life imprisonment plus 30 years in a maximum-security facility near Florence, Colorado.

"The one thing you have to understand about the trial is that there is a mountain of evidence against El Chapo. And there's so much more to the entire Sinaloa Cartel, that in my honest opinion, I don't think he has a chance of an appeal", said DEA Special Agent Ray Donovan.

El Chapo has escaped from Mexican prison twice, which prompted U.S. officials to house him in the Colorado facility that is known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies". His attorney Mariel Colon told reporters that her client is having a "difficult time" living behind bars during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For over 25 years,"El Chapo was the feared and heavily sought after leader of the mighty and violent Sinaloa Cartel. Prosecutors have called him a "ruthless and bloodthirsty leader." Witnesses during the trial testified that El Chapo ordered and sometimes took part in the torture and murder of perceived cartel enemies.

"What people never really grasp is the kind of evil that El Chapo really bestowed upon his own people, and certainly, on Americans through the drug trade," he said. "Thousands of people died or were ordered killed because of the Sinaloa Cartel. So yeah, he doesn't leave his cell. It is boring. It's monotonous. It's a daily routine. It is very sad but here's the difference. He's alive. And that means he could do plenty of things, unlike many of his victims."

While on trial, El Chapo slammed his conditions at the Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC), a federal prison in Manhattan where he was incarcerated before being transferred to Colorado.
Mariel Colon, El Chapo's attorney
El Chapo's legal team had filed requests for better prison conditions at the MCC, where he was kept in solitary confinement 23 hours a day. His attorneys said that since he was brought to the US he has spent more than two years without any access to fresh air or natural light, adding that he must sleep with the light on in his cell, conditions that attorneys say are "psychologically scarring."

Now, El Chapo's lawyer has brought up similar concerns regarding his confinement in Colorado -- but argues conditions are worse there, especially amid the pandemic.

COVID-19 is having a significant impact on the nation's prison system, causing death and rates of infection that are 5.5 times higher than the general US population, according to a recent analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

An outbreak at San Quentin State Prison, where more than half of the COVID-19 cases in state prisons have been reported, has claimed the lives of at least seven incarcerated people, according to a tally from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Due to the pandemic, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has temporarily suspended all visits and internal inmate movements order to prevent the spread of the virus inside their penitentiaries.

"He's even more alone now after COVID-19. They completely canceled all visits, legal and social. He was allowed three hours a week of outdoor exercise but that has also been suspended in order to limit his contact with the guards, so of course this has been hard, or harder on him and it has affected Mr. Guzman emotionally and psychologically in my opinion," she said.
 
DEA Special Agent Ray Donovan
After rendering the verdict, one of the 12 anonymous jurors reached out to journalist Keegan Hamilton from Vice News and alleged that many of those on the panel ignored the judge's instructions to stay away from any news reports about the case and lied when asked if they had been exposed to certain information.

At the time, El Chapo's attorneys filed a motion seeking a new trial, but it was denied. "I think the judge ruled correctly," Donovan said. "He reviewed the issue and came up with an honest conclusion in my opinion. I really don't think there is a basis there." But according to Colon, El Chapo remains optimistic.

"My personal impression is that everyone that is facing a life sentence like that is going to hold on to every piece of hope, and, of course he's very much looking forward to this appeal because he wants the opportunity to have a fair trial," said Colon. Still, Donovan believes El Chapo will live out the rest of his days alone, in prison.

"No one has ever escaped Supermax. He has no chance at all of ever getting out of there."

110 comments:

  1. Animo Patron !

    Free El Señor! This is inhuman treatment. He is protected by the Geneva Convention !

    New People 006

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    1. Cual señor pendejo. Este guey esta hasta la Madre porbel resto de su vida y con tus mamadas.

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    2. I like you sucario 006, but if you really think about your statement you said "this is inhuman treatment" that actually fits chapo perfectly cause he acted inhuman to me, snitching and all

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    3. 006 this comment actually makes sense. A little esplenacion pero naa.

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  2. He should have seen this coming and therefore gone out in a hail of bullets.

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    1. He saw it coming,,,, but he ain’t a true OG... El Chapo rather live Crying in prison than to have died like a Vato......

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    2. What really is a ""Vato ??
      i came from L.A. and heard it alot

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    3. Bato is some guy, another man,
      Vato is a versión with an error in spelling, most people using vato versión are ignorant cotton pickers, braseros, braziers, or the Correct "Braceros", hired hands

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  3. CDS is already crying to papa AMLO for help in a narcomanta that they need help to take out the Quintero Páez from Sonora.

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    1. Where this narcomanta hang?

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    2. That's Los Chapitos, not Mayo...

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    3. 6:16 sonora, 9:53 mayo is already ready to give mencho all of mexico, theres only one guy who can bring peace to the narco world and that's el señor mencho! El señor de los cocks 🐔!!!!!!!

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  4. Animo, Chapo! Sicario 006 and his band of merry men are now training to rescue you. In no time you'll be back in Puerta Grande enjoying putas and tacos al pastor.

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  5. I give ratings to you el Chapo as you and our gracious leader z40 became friends in altiplano and even joked about how our major battles could have been avoided if you had met sooner also you didn’t snitch amigo el senor lazca has instructed the Scottish zeta grupo elite to feed any snitches to the Loch Ness monster

    ATTE SCOTTISH ZETA

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    1. You are THE BEST !

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    2. I remember that meeting. I had just flown in from Shanghai and Japan. The war was indeed unnecessary.

      ATTE SINO-MESTIZO TRIAD YAKUSA SINALOA FEDERATION SPECIAL FORCES RECON BRIGADE 1ST GENERAL 109 BATTALION YOKOZUNA SQUADRON.

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    3. You are sicario 06

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    4. Chapo wasn't offered a deal so he couldn't snitch even if he wanted to.

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    5. Cartel nut hugger

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    6. No they are not allies to anyone who’s asking I doubt there’ll ever be an alliance maybe a family or two trying to push an allegiance but will be sold out quickly no matter how much juice you got tas pendejo

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    7. Funny comment lol but let’s be clear that El Chapo didn’t snitch because he wasn’t given the option.

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    8. Why do I get "Sicario 006" vibes??

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    9. CULICHI he’s just a wannabe but sin chiste.

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    10. All the zeta chorrienta's criminal friends have ended up dead, and El Chapo used to be friends with the wrong people for too long, from Arizona to Niu Yoark and Niu Jearsay...

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    11. 9:55 in a troll war yes sicario 006 will win! In real life cjng slaughters cds, todos cagados porque en el culiacanaso un guey traia un calibre 50 y en el video reciente de cjng avia 10 calibres 50 y eso es nomas la puntita

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    12. Culichi bro you cant even compare the two. Scottish Zeta is a Euro nerd who plays video games and constantly wanks.

      Sicario 006 is the real deal. On his weekends off He works behind the scenes to save the world against corona. He single handedly prevented corona from killing millions.

      We should all bend the knee to 006.

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  6. I mean, even if the skies collapse on the earth, or a nuclear war breaks out, hell will freeze over before this guy leaves supermax prison.

    Just abandon all hope.

    It will only be nicer if z40 joins him there. That will be very nice.

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  7. El Chapo you'll die in your little cell :) Root in HELL!

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  8. I bet chapo is kicking his own ass wishing he never met that one bitch and sean penn.Dont worry chapo youll be out when your dead. Meanwhile enjoy how your children destroy your family cds faction with their stupidity.

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    1. Chapo wanted to be el señor de los cielos he believed that he was smarter and richer so that’s why he did the Kate del Castillo thing he wanted the world to know he was more than mayos compadre. MZ always said for years that chapitos ambitious ways would end his career

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    2. Right, he makes a tape bragging about being the biggest narcotics distributor, then claims he's a farmer. Ego is WAAYYYYYY to big.

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    3. Nada the chapitos have everything on lock even cjng will bend the knee soon atte: el diablo

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    4. Yeah that's when the government realized they had to go him because he was becoming a liability. El Mencho is next with his theatrics

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    5. 1:09 sheesh LOL

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    6. Chapitos aint shit and they aint got shit on luck. If it wasnt for el mayo they be dead.

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  9. Can’t do the time than don’t do the crime. He’s been responsible for thousands of deaths so a small drop of justice would be he never harms anyone again.

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  10. LOL....you wanna play the game? Do the crime do your time. The walls and floors have already started talking to him. Soon he will be hallucinating if he is not already then the brain dead dementia will hit hime do in part to his age. LOL sorry Guzman, you will die in ADX for the crimes you committed to humanity second only to Hitler. Most of your family will soon be with you to die in a concrete slab which will all be your tomb at ADX. Then as promised the USA will deport your remains to the closest Mexican embassy dropped at the doorway. No dignity no respect as you have done to others. Die in insanity LOL!!!!!

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    1. 🖕 El Chapo he was and will always be known as 💩💩💩! Die a slow slow slow death you murderous loser.

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  11. All that power and money? Now he's a caged animal. Although animals act on pure instinct not on choices, which you did Mr Chapo.

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  12. He's better off dead or in any other prison in the world. This is music to my ears. Hope this lunatic suffers every day for the rest of his life.

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    1. Your life must suck that bad,you’re so worried about him and what he goes through yet he doesn’t know you exist,you keyboard warriors are funny

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    2. 12:12 jaja you actually sound funnier trying to excuse a mass murdered, he diesnt know you exist either!

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  13. Who would of thought that the rookie "COLORS" cop was gonna b in the middle of chaos demise...

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    1. Pac-Man......

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    2. El Chapo should have asked Sean Pen to hook him up with con Chita instead of that mugrosa Kate.....Conchita was from Varrio....😁 you seen the movie....

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    3. 💯 wasn’t he low key racist....dating the Spanish girl but if I remember there were racial “entanglements”

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    4. Lmao 😂 -Simon -SIMOOON!!!!

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  14. Truth is, once an infection breaks out at FDX, anything will be possible....

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    1. 50 to 100 Billion Dollars not assets he can be free

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  15. I'm a russia girl marry to a sinaloa man he says chapo is missed in his home country a good man with no opportunity and cigarettes and alcohol kill more people than drug and the owners are free is it not a double standard? Yes free el chapo
    👩🇷🇺

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    1. Tell him que no Mame

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    2. I know people that grew up under almost identical situations and they don't kill people for a living.
      Fuck Chapo!

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    3. and I'm sure you think Putin's a stand up guy!

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    4. Imagine thinking el chapo was a good man and all his wrong doings are okay because cigarettes and alcohol kill more people. Lol what a joke.

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    5. 3:11 i can forgive all of chapos wrong doings but the one i cant forget is the snitching, there hasnt been a biggest rat as him

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    6. EVERYBODY is Russia thinks Putin in a stand up guy. But I have to admit his martial arts skills and knowing several languages is pretty cool.

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    7. No ONE in Russia thinks Putin is a stand up guy....

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    8. Russia is the least of our concern. You're still living in 2 centuries ago. You are way behind. Shorty is an orange blossom special. Not a commie joto.

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  16. He better start Singing and by singing he have to give everyone and everything up, if he ever wants to see a minimum level prison

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  17. What a whiny bitch. The only one profiting from this are the lawyers, until she gets whacked herself.

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  18. Attorney Colon, such a pretty face, and probably the only reason Chapo hired you, because if you were worth it, Chapo wouldn't be where he is.

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  19. Arturo murio en la raya gracias a que su pro Chapo le puso El gobierno. Pero El Chapo lo subieron llorando a un helicoptero y ahorita se a de arrepentir haberse aliado con El Mayo, que de seguro lo puso a El. Traiciono a Los que le defendieron la plaza cuando estubo encerrado la primer ves. Mochomo de huevos saber que nunca saldras y preferistes no hablar. Honor a esos hombres de la Palma!

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    1. Así es, Arturo murió una sola vez y JAGL va morir todos los días que esté encerrado

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    2. 3:38 sin palabras, la lealtad se respeta mas que un puesto, y los que lo ignoren can a terminar como el chapo! Imaginate que el chapo mejor se alia con arturo, serian una fuerza casi como ahorita el cjng

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  20. eso le pasa por andar de sapo con los gringos a llorar al panteon

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  21. Pues no que muy bravo.

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  22. He should’ve gone out like Nacho Coronel, Arturo Beltran and Tony Tormenta..

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    1. Chale,,,, Chapitos will never do that..... he needs huevos for that.....

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    2. Yes will say Tony, the old Boss's did. Chapo and Trevino no guts

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    3. Macho Prieto y Manuel Torres...

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    4. Mejor mil veces vivo que muerto. Death is an easy way out. Face life and whatever it throws at you.

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    5. 9:02

      So you always cross a street only at red lights but not at green lights because that would be too easy?

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  23. I don't need to ask if El Jefe ever granted one of his victims an appeal. But I want him to make noises of torture and insanity for narcos to hear in México. I want them to have sudor and fantasmas about this place.

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  24. Typical coward cries when has to do real jail time. Enjoy ya slow death scumbag

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  25. Rot in your own shit buddy you aint going no where

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  26. Fake news LOL Cnn can’t be trusted Clinton news network

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  27. The US govt should show compassion and let Mr. Guzman go serve his sentence in MX. Given that he has single handily kept America high for the last 30 years. Let him go back to his mother's house in Badiraguato with an ankle bracelet or let him built his own prison. 99.9% of you would like to be in the life drinking champagne driving fast cars dating hot chicas but you got no balls. Shorty the man had balls.

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    1. Where did that get him? Not everyone in life wets themselves over champagne, fast cars or “hot chicas” lol. And you don’t have to do what he did to enjoy/afford those things

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    2. Don't forget he was a legally kidnapped by a couple of clowns but he was set up by El Mayo zambada

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    3. 7:33 maybe a lot of us would love to live his life in the moment but as of right now not really, a shit lot of us normal guys now have the chance to do something of our selfs the legal way, at one point in my life i would of given anything to have his life but now that i seen all his sufferings like seen you kid dead "Edgar" im sure he would change all his money and fame to hugh his son one last time! Now that im a dad i can totally feel his pain, but sure keep cheering for a cartel who destroice whole families knowinly or not

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  28. Ar least Chapo can spend a lot of time listening for God's voice. If he reforms himself, he may get to hear it too. Plenty of time for that. Worth a try.

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  29. Poor CHAPO, locked up for life EVEN though he had a deal WITH 🇺🇸 to smuggle DRUGS
    They ALL fall at THE end, even MENCHO WILL HAVE his time after his 10 minutes of fame
    MAYO has never been in jail but his SONS and brother HAVE..

    No WINNERS in the DRUG game..

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  30. This is where All Cartels members belong
    Every Single One
    And every Offical that steals millions from the poor

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    1. So we locking up the FBI DEA and even presidents then?

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    2. I’ll help, I say we start with the dirty politicians and agencies. If the narcos are still around after that, which is debatable, we can do away with them too ..

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  31. He wants out, he cant bribe the prison system of USA, last I heard he is doing life.

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  32. Boss of the crybaby cartel.

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  33. Chapo’s a bitch already complaining. I thought all the Sinaloa cartel leaders supposed to be tuff tell him to shut up and just take it. You don’t hear any complaints from Benjamin Arellano.

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    1. Benjamin is in gen pop and is getting out of prison soon...big difference.

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  34. Typical Snichaloa! Get them behind bars and all they do is cry. I bet Chapitos cried and befged when el licenciado kidnaped them!! They also cried when Mencho called and release them! I heard they actually did a lil extra on their knees on mencho....

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  35. Ke aguante la bara
    Asi como el señor juan garcia abrego!

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  36. It seems pretty easy for El chapo to get out. Send a team of secarrios to kidnap 3 or 4 important US judges and then negotiate his release.

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    1. @3:48 pm Brotha, your delusional, stop watching movies!

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    2. 8:38 blackmail worked for Lucky Luciano

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  37. Chapo always acts like an overly sensitive crybaby when he's locked up. Poor poor El Chapo.

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  38. "El Mundo es pa los osados, no pa los timidos y callados" "el que no habla dios no lo oye" "el diablo no es diablo por ser diablo si no por ser viejo"

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  39. probably the same reason no one from CJNG dares to break out los menchos or los cuinis...

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  40. Desde a Supermax puedes mandar y dar ordenes así lo hace Mills de la HERMANDAD ARIA.

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  41. Miren le bien a la cara del baboso que al final quedó en chorrizado. Allí termina el camino de los inútiles.

    - Sol Prendido

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  42. After all the wars , the murders and everything else we dont know..chapo is gonna die of natural causes .. the u.s is gonna be pissed in never getting a dollar of his or properties real estate etc.. he lost his freedom forever..but most drug kingpin usually die by shooting .. saludos BB from Texas Mexico border

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  43. @859 ur hellaaa on chapós nuts huh lol

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