Maria Consuelo Loeramother of the Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, has died at the age of 94, according to local media reports. The woman, also the grandmother of the drug traffickers known as the ‘Chapitos’, current leaders of the Sinaloa Cartelwould have died in a private clinic in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, as he suffered after-effects after falling ill with covid-19 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 Obradorwhen the president went to the area to supervise the construction of the Badiraguato – Guadalupe and Calvo highway.
On that visit, on March 29, 2020, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the Mexican president got out of his truck to greet Loera, who asked him for help to visit his son, imprisoned in the United States. “I greet 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 ‘El Chapo”s mother 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.