María Consuelo Loera, mother of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, He died this Sunday afternoon at the age of 94..
The woman, also the grandmother of the drug traffickers known as the ‘Chapitos’, current leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, would have died in a private clinic in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, as she suffered after-effects after falling ill with COVID in 2021.
Originally from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Loera was publicly captured in March 2020 during a brief meeting with the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
However, journalistic reports claim that, since February 2019Joaquín Guzmán’s mother sent a letter to President López Obrador asking for help so that her son, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was repatriated.
In response, López Obrador issued orders to the Ministry of the Interior to issue humanitarian visas to the capo’s daughters and María Consuelo Loera, so that they could travel to the United States.
Later, in 2020, when the president went to the area to supervise the construction of the Badiraguato – Guadalupe y Calvo highway, López Obrador and María Consuelo Loera had a meeting and even shook hands after a tour of the working President through Sinaloa .
On that visit, on March 29, 2020, despite the covid-19 pandemic, The president got out of his truck to greet Loera, who asked him for help to visit his son, imprisoned in the United States.
“I salute you, don’t get off, don’t get off, I already received your letter,” the president told Chapo’s mother in said meeting.
The president was referring to a letter that Loera sent him, in which he asked for support so that his government intervened before the United States so that she could visit her son in the ADX Florence maximum security prison, in the United States. where he has been held since 2019, serving a life sentence.
López Obrador’s greeting to the mother of “El Chapo” earned him a series of criticisms.
However, the president not only defended the meeting, but also sought to support her in arranging for a humanitarian visa so that she and her daughters could go visit the drug trafficker in the United States.
Currently, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and his son and Consuelo’s grandson, Ovidio Guzmán, are imprisoned in the United States.facing accusations related to drug trafficking.
Consuelo Loera was respected by many, Mrs. Consuelo, together with her husband Emilio Guzmán Bustillos, had, in addition to Joaquín, Arturo, Miguel Ángel, and Aureliano.
In addition to two daughters, Armida and Bernarda, who it turned out, took care of her until her last days.
According to journalistic data, “El Chapo”’s parents were dedicated to collecting oranges and transporting them to the markets, before their children became involved in illicit activities.
Doña Consuelo always tries to keep a low profile and stay away from her children’s activities. Living in the town of La Tuna in the municipality of Badiraguato, however, this did not prevent her from being exposed to her son’s rivals.
In June 2016, Jesús Alfredo Beltrán Guzmán participated with 150 hitmen in an attack on his ranch, in the municipality of Badiraguato, during a shootout that left three neighbors dead, property was looted and the woman was forced to to flee from his home by helicopter, as the weekly Río Doce published at the time.
Furthermore, years later, Beltrán Guzmán himself was accused of having participated in the planning and kidnapping of two of Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s children.
*With information from EFE.
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