The mother of "El Chapo" Guzmán gave a letter to López Obrador asking for a humanitarian visa

The lawyers in Mexico Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán badured Tuesday that the mother of the cape sent a letter to beg the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, his intervention to obtain a US humanitarian visa allowing him to go see his son.

"I have not seen it for more than five years"says Maria Consuelo Loera Perez, who describes herself as a" distressed and desperate mother, "according to a photocopy of her letter that the lawyer José Luis González Meza He showed at a press conference.

González says that delivered in person the letter to the president after an official ceremony held on February 15 and that López Obrador "he saved himin the bag of his shirt.

"We are asking for your precious intervention so that the North American government, through its embbady in Mexico, authorize humanitarian visas for me and my daughters Armida and Bernarda Guzmán Loera," added the mother of the former leader. of the Sinaloa cartel. considered the largest drug trafficker on the planet after the death of Colombian Pablo Escobar.

Juan Pablo Badillo, another of his lawyers, describes as "lukewarm"the performance of his defense in the lawsuit of the United States.

A New York jury said a week ago to "El Chapo" Guzmán guilty of 10 drug trafficking crimes. In June, he must be sentenced to a non-negotiable life sentence and sent to the maximum security prison (ADX) in Florence, Colorado (west).

"As a result of the trial proceedings, the prosecution proposed 56 protected witnesses"While his defense, chaired by lawyer Bill Purpura, has only introduced" a defense witness, "Badillo said.

The lawyer said he had filed nine amparos "which are still valid because they have not been refused"against the extradition of Chapo because the law says that the accused must be surrendered to the first court that requires it, and in this case it was a case from Southern California, not New York.

Must be "cancel the test"who has"vices of origin"he said.

Visits to the prison to which he will be sent are authorized, but they must be approved by the prison authorities.