Mother Of Mexican Drug Kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Dies At 95

Maria Consuelo Loera, the mother of famed Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has died at the age of 95, according to family members and local media.

Loera died Sunday at a private hospital in Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, home to her son’s formidable drug trafficking gang, due to complications weeks after gallbladder surgery, according to family and media reports.

Controversy erupted surrounding Loera after she met with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador while he was touring the state in March 2020. He approached her car to meet her, drawing harsh censure from the commander.

Obrador at the time defended his gesture, saying the elderly woman “deserves all my respect regardless of who her son is.”

“If I shake hands with white-collar criminals, how can I not shake hands with a lady?” he said.

During their meeting, Loera handed Obrador a letter in which she asked for his assistance in obtaining a humanitarian visa to visit her son in prison in the United States, where he has been serving a life sentence for drug trafficking since 2019.

She was never able to make the trip.

Asked for his reaction to her death during his morning press conference Monday, Obrador offered his condolences.

“I respect the family… Any human being who loses her life deserves respect and also a consideration for the relatives, to everyone,” he said. “No human is alien to me.”

 

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