El Chapo allegedly whacked the men who forced him to pay $500K for long johns

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera (left) forked over $500,000 to ship a pair of lengthy johns to his son Ivan (proper) in jail.
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Because the billionaire head of the Sinaloa Cartel, El Chapo was used to paying exorbitant costs for every thing he wished. However even the mighty crime boss flinched when he was compelled to shell out $500,000 for a pair of lengthy johns.

The thermal bottoms had been supposed for his son, Ivan Guzmán Salazar, who was serving a three-year sentence for cash laundering on the maximum-security jail of La Palma (Altiplano), the place his father himself had as soon as been incarcerated within the early Nineteen Nineties.

Within the winter of 2007-2008, Ivan’s cell was so chilly, he requested by means of numerous intermediaries — “a corruption pipeline” — to get his father (actual title: Joaquín Guzmán Loera) to ship the underwear.

Ivan had relied on his dad prior to now. In 2005, when he was arrested with three others and charged with double murder in Jalisco state, he solely confronted accusations of cash laundering “because of attorneys employed by El Chapo,” writes Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez in her new guide “Emma and the Different Narco Girls” (Grijalbo Publishing), out Jan. 25.

El Chapo was charged $500,000 to ship lengthy johns to his son in the identical jail the place he himself had served time.

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A couple of years later, when Ivan wanted to maintain heat in jail, El Chapo requested certainly one of his fellow drug traffickers — Edgar “the Barbie” Valdez Villareal — to search out out whom he needed to bribe on the maximum-security jail to get his son some heat layers.

Ivan Guzmán Salazar (left, along with his brother Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar) was doing time for cash laundering when he requested his father for assist.

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“With one telephone name, one of many troopers discovered the fitting particular person,” writes Hernandez. “A guard on the jail may get the clothes to his son.”

El Chapo put out successful on the troopers who had scammed him over the lengthy johns.

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The guard charged $100,000 for the favor, however out of greed, the 2 troopers who had made the contact determined to ask El Chapo for 5 occasions the quantity. They provided to chop the Barbie in on the deal, however “as a result of he knew who he was coping with,” Barbie declined the provide, writes Hernandez.

One other El Chapo son, Edgar Guzmán Lopez, was later gunned down — by his father’s employed killers — in a case of mistaken identification.

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El Chapo paid the complete $500K to get his son a few T-shirts and thermal underwear, however then he started to analyze. When the Barbie informed him what the troopers had finished, the Sinaloa chief dispatched successful squad. The 2 males had been tortured and killed, their our bodies quartered and left on the outskirts of Mexico Metropolis’s worldwide airport, in keeping with Hernandez.

The brand new guide “Emma and the Different Narco Girls” reveals many tales about El Chapo and his household.

A couple of months later, Ivan was launched, however one other son, Edgar Guzmán Lopez, was gunned down in a hail of bullets. The hit was ordered by El Chapo himself in what proved to be a case of mistaken identification.

And but, this time, El Chapo was merciful.

“He pardoned the hitmen and there have been no reprisals,” writes Hernandez. “The offense of getting been charged $500,000 for the lengthy underwear was much more severe than the assassination of his son.”