The lawyer pointed out that it is necessary to “respect his special diet.”
Ovidio Guzmán López, alias ‘El Ratón’, suffers from anxiety and depression and needs special medications, the lawyer for ‘El Chapo’s’ son, Alberto Díaz Mendieta, told the local press upon leaving the prison where his client remains under arrest.
Guzmán’s legal defense requested specialized medical attention for him during his stay in the El Altiplano prison, in the Mexican municipality of Almoloya de Juárez.
“They have to give him his diet and his medicine. The judge ordered that he be treated medically,” declared Díaz Mendieta.
The lawyer clarified that the son of “El Chapo” underwent gastrointestinal surgery, although he stated “he did not have the information” when asked to specify the date of the surgical intervention, limiting himself to assuring that “they will treat him well medically.”
Speaking regarding the charges that Guzmán faces, the lawyer pointed out that they are still waiting for the proper documentation from the US government, which insisted on his extradition and whose request led to the arrest of “El Ratón” in Sinaloa this Thursday.
The detainee is the leader of a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel that is in conflict with the group led by Ismael ‘el Mayo’ Zambada.
“You cannot advance the facts and the charges until the Government presents [estadounidense] the formal request”, he clarified, indicating that at the moment “it is not yet possible to speak of a strategy [de defensa] or anything.”
“The facts that they now report to those who may eventually bring them later do not necessarily coincide,” he added.
Since September 2019, the US submitted to the Mexican Foreign Ministry a request for the provisional detention of Guzmán for the purpose of extradition for alleged drug crimes.
Pending the development of this process, the son of “El Chapo” was arrested for crimes committed in flagrante delicto, although there are open investigations for crimes once morest health and possession of firearms.
The specialist in criminal, military and national security law César Gutiérrez Priego points out that the fight once morest drugs has to begin with the seizure of the resources owned by drug traffickers operating in Mexico.
“Organized crime groups in Mexico, and specifically the drug cartels, are very empowered. They have too great an economic capacity and, in addition, they have a flow of money that arrives every day, they have the capacity to have weapons that equal the capacities of the Armed Forces in the country, they have surpassed the majority of state police officers”, commented to RT.
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