Searching for Chapo in the places and people of his world

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Mexican Federal Government Tracks Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán
Sun 19 Jan 2014 07:53

The federal Government seeks to recapture Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman investigating relatives and close people who protect him.

This Sunday, the newspaper Reforma reports on a document that was put together by the Federal Cabinet of Public Safety in the middle of last year and updated in October, which includes biographical data of 22 family members of the fugitive, 21 employees and 27 characters who provide institutional protection for him.

The report contains unpublished photographs of these people, among which seven romantic partners of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, along with their children.

For example, the kingpin, who escaped Puente Grande prison in Jalisco 13 years ago, was visited, separately, by Emma Coronel Aispuro, his current wife; Alejandrina Guzmán Salazar, the daughter he had with Maria Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, and Frida Muñoz Román, widow of Édgar Guzmán López, the son of “El Chapo” murdered in 2008.

Meetings have taken place between March and April 2012, and the women were photographed leaving the Cancun International Airport, at the time of taking a taxi and the hotels where they stayed. And it seems that the strategy to come up with the capo is detecting weaknesses: women, the taste for comfort and the mistreatment of his operators.

As well, to track down the fugitive in the “Golden Triangle”, they have banks of voices, databases with information from department stores and television and internet satellite companies, and the government has commissioned a Sierra Madre Aeromobile task force .

The report notes that most of the time he is hidden in inaccessible areas of the Golden Triangle, for the last decade “El Chapo” has mainly remained in 6 parts of Sinaloa and 12 places in Durango.

According to the report, although at times the capo goes about day by day, his weakness is his preference for comfort, since he brings to the most remote places telephony technology, satellite services and outfits his cabins with luxuries.

Add to this the weakness for women, what has nearly cost the capo his freedom.

And is that there are seven romantic partners, according to the biography of “El Chapo” all monitored and six of them with known children: Karla Pérez Martínez, Griselda López Pérez, Adriana Trejo Retamoza, María Alejandrina Salazar, Blanca Esthela Peña García, Emma Coronel Aispuro and Agustina Cabanillas Acosta.

Undercover agents have monitored  Emma Coronel Aispuro, the current wife of the criminal; Alejandrina Guzmán Salazar, the daughter he had when he was with Maria Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, and Frida Muñoz Román, the widow of Édgar Guzmán López, the son of “El Chapo” who was murdered in 2008.

The Government also seeks to arrive at “El Chapo” by the mistakes of his operators, because “workers or farmers receive abuse from middle managers”, but so far, no abuse of his subordinates have reached so that one the fights delivered the capo to the authorities.

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has two other problems that could also can cost him his life: diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to the report.

According to the special government report, these diseases are part of the most notable weakness of the outlaw, because there is also knowledge of bad habits, such as a taste for parties.
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