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The mother of convicted drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman said Saturday that the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City granted her a visa so she can visit her son in prison.
Sitting in a wheelchair in front of the embassy, Consuelo Loera said that she and two daughters were both approved Saturday for visas to travel to the United States.
Thank God, the U.S. Embassy gave me the permission, she said in a feeble voice while surrounded by a throng of journalists:
Loera said she hasnt seen her son in more than four years. She added that she has yet to receive the actual visa or set a date for her trip.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obradór lobbied for the visa to be issued after receiving a letter from Loera asking for assistance.
El Chapo, who led the Sinaloa drug cartel and twice escaped from Mexican prisons before he was extradited to New York, was convicted in February of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation. The three-month trial heard tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans and jewel-encrusted guns.
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mucifer
(23,539 posts)Who the hell approved this???
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)This is one of those cases.