‘El Mayo’ traicionó a mi papá: hija de El Chapo. My dad financió campañas electorales de políticos mexicanos

+Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz dijo que el capo financió las campañas electorales de políticos mexicanos: ‘La fuga de mi papá fue un acuerdo’
+ Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán entró en dos ocasiones en EEUU, mientras era prófugo, aseguró su hija. ENTREVISTA
+ California, mujer de negocios, ‘Junior narco’: hija Americana de El Chapo. ENTREVISTA
+Ella se compara a sí misma como “narco junior”, un término mexicano que se refiere a los hijos de los grandes capos pero aseguró que el dinero que recibió de su padre era limpio.
+ Vestida informalmente con un vestido blanco y negro con pantalones negros y botas, ella tomó un sorbo de café y habló sobre el trabajo, los niños y la importancia de estar en contacto con la familia. Su pequeña cadena de lavado de autos, salones de belleza y cafés iba bien, ella dijo.
+Muy bien, a juzgar por el Rolex en la muñeca, la bolsa de Louis Vuitton a sus pies y el Mercedes Benz estacionado afuera.
+Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz, hija mayor de Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, mencionó que su padre volvió a la cárcel porque fue traicionado por su socio, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.

En entrevista para el diario The Guardian, explicó que “El Chapo” tenía planeado entregar las riendas del Cártel del Pacífico a su medio hermano, Iván Archivaldo, pero fue traicionado por “El Mayo”.

Guzmán Ortiz, quien concedió la entrevista con la condición de que no será revelada su ubicación, explicó que su papá viajó en dos ocasiones a Estados Unidos, para conocer una casa que compró.

Según el rotativo británico, Guzmán Ortiz dirige una cadena de pequeñas empresas en California.

Mis negocios son el resultado de mis propios esfuerzos”, recalcó.

++»El Chapo» estuvo dos veces en EEUU durante su fuga, según su hija. Londres, 4 mar (EFE).- El narcotraficante mexicano Joaquín «El Chapo» Guzmán estuvo en dos ocasiones en Estados Unidos tras la fuga que protagonizó en julio de 2015, según reveló hoy la hija mayor del capo, Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz.

En una entrevista que publica hoy el diario británico The Guardian, Guzmán Ortiz asegura que funcionarios mexicanos ayudaron a su padre a cruzar la frontera para visitar a familiares, tras escapar del penal de máxima seguridad de El Altiplano, en el Estado de México, a través de un túnel de 1,5 kilómetros.

La hija del narcotraficante, que se convirtió entonces en uno de los fugitivos más buscados del mundo, señala en su primera entrevista con un medio de comunicación que políticos mexicanos aceptaron donaciones de El Chapo para sus campañas electorales, lo que le sirvió, según su versión, para facilitar su huida.

«Mi padre no es un criminal. Es el Gobierno el que es culpable», dijo Guzmán Ortiz, de 39 años, que mantuvo diversas conversaciones con periodistas de The Guardian con el beneplácito de El Chapo, de 61 años.

La hija del líder de uno de los sindicatos de la droga más lucrativos del mundo comenta que su padre estuvo a finales de 2015 en su casa de California (EEUU), donde vive con sus cuatro hijos.

«El Chapo» mantiene diversos lazos familiares en Estados Unidos, país natal de su tercera esposa, la antigua reina de la belleza Emma Coronel.

Guzmán Ortiz no desvela en la entrevista detalles de cómo «El Chapo» logró cruzar la frontera estadounidense sin ser detectado.

«Yo le pregunté lo mismo, créame. Lo único que sé es que mi padre le encargó a su abogado que entregara algunos cheques para campañas (políticas) y pidió que se le respetara», señala, al tiempo que indica que su familia está considerando publicar copias de esos cheques junto con los nombres de funcionarios y políticos que los aceptaron.

«Si hay un pacto, no lo respetan. Ahora que lo han capturado dicen que es un criminal, un asesino. Pero no decían eso cuando pedían dinero para sus campañas. Son unos hipócritas», asevera la hija del traficante.

Al día siguiente de la fuga de «El Chapo», el presidente de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, tachó lo sucedido como una «afrenta» para el país y anunció una «investigación a fondo para determinar si ha habido servidores públicos en complicidad o involucrados» en la huida.

La Agencia Antidrogas Estadounidense (DEA) ofreció una recompensa de 5 millones de dólares (4,5 millones de euros) por cualquier información que condujera a su captura.

A principios de enero, el narcotraficante fue detenido en Sinaloa, en el noreste de México, una de las cunas del tráfico de drogas en Norteamérica.

«El Chapo» estuvo dos veces en EEUU durante su fuga, según su hija© EFE

«El Chapo» había logrado notoriedad internacional con una primera fuga de prisión en 2001, cuando huyó de la cárcel de Puerto Grande, en Guadalajara, oculto en un carro de la lavandería.

En aquella ocasión permaneció más de una década en paradero desconocido para las autoridades, que le capturaron en febrero de 2014, también en Sinaloa. http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/03/04/1078875

Puedes leer la nota original en The Guardian.
A CONTINUACIÓN LA REPRODUCIÓN DE DOS TEXTOS ORIGINALES PUBLICADOS POR THE GUARDIAN

++El Chapo entered US twice while on the run after prison break, daughter claims
(Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán entró en dos ocasiones en EEUU, mientras era prófugo, aseguró su hija.)
In an exclusive interview, Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz says Mexican officials helped him evade US patrols and that he bankrolled the election of senior politicians
Lea este artículo en español EN http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/04/joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-entro-eeuu-mientras-profugo-hija-entrevista

José Luis Montenegro in Mexico City and Rory Carroll in Los Angeles
Friday 4 March 2016 12.00 GMT
The drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán bankrolled the election of senior Mexico politicians and twice secretly entered the United States to visit relatives, according to his eldest daughter.

Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz said that shortly after an interview with Hollywood star Sean Penn last year, her father dodged a massive manhunt with the complicity of corrupt Mexican officials and evaded US border controls to sneak into California – despite being one of the world’s most wanted fugitives.

She also accused senior Mexican politicians of accepting donations from El Chapo when they ran for office, and said that in return officials turned a blind eye to his escapes from prison.

“My dad is not a criminal. The government is guilty,” she told the Guardian.

The explosive allegations made by Guzmán Ortiz could not be independently verified and are likely to be vigorously contested by Mexican and US authorities.

Guzmán Ortiz, 39, made the claims in a series of interviews which she said were given in consultation with her father.

El Chapo was recaptured in January after seven months on the run, and sent back to the Altiplano security jail near Mexico – the same prison from which he escaped in July 2015 through a tunnel which opened into his shower stall.

Earlier this week, he instructed his lawyers to drop their attempts to fight extradition to the United States in the apparent hope of negotiating a lighter sentence.

Guzmán Ortiz said the drug lord had planned to hand the reins of the Sinaloa cartel to her half-brother, Iván Archivaldo, but was betrayed by a cartel colleague, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada – and by the Mexican government, which she said had broken an agreement to protect El Chapo.

It is the first time the cartel leader’s daughter has spoken to the media. The Guardian has seen several documents confirming her identity, including her birth certificate and Mexican voting card.

Guzmán Ortiz’s identity was also confirmed by Francisco Villa Gurrola, an evangelical minister in El Chapo’s hometown of Badiraguato, who is a close friend of the drug lord’s 87-year-old mother Consuela Loera.

Her claims about El Chapo’s visits to California will raise questions about US intelligence and border security. As head of the world’s biggest and richest criminal syndicate he was the drug war’s most prized target.

Guzmán Ortiz said her father crossed the border in late 2015 to visit relatives and to view her home, a five-bedroom house with a large garden which he bought for her and her four children. She granted the interview on condition its location not be disclosed.

“My dad deposited the money in a bank account with a lawyer and a while after he came to see the house, his house. He came twice.”

She declined to specify how he criss-crossed the heavily guarded frontier, saying only: “I asked him the same, believe me.”

El Chapo has other family ties to the US: his third wife, the former beauty queen Emma Coronel, is a US citizen and in 2011 gave birth to twin daughters in southern California.

At the time, El Chapo had been on the run for a more than decade, and then president Felipe Calderón speculated that the fugitive drug kingpin could be hiding north of the border.

“He’s not in Mexican territory, and I suppose El Chapo is in US territory,” he told the New York Times.

José Reveles, the author of a string of books about the Mexican underworld, said that “nothing is impossible” for El Chapo, pointing out that Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel pioneered the use of sophisticated tunnels to smuggle drug shipments – and cartel members – into the US.

“Everything indicates that El Chapo would be able to visit the US: he’s very smart, he has well-trained operatives and he has experts in building tunnels,” said Reveles.

El Chapo’s rise from impoverished orange seller to Forbes-listed billionaire funnelling vast quantities of marijuana, cocaine and other drugs to the US has long been the subject of intense speculation.

Guzmán Ortiz’s explanation is that he bought protection at the highest official level, dispatching representatives to meetings with senior politicians and their representatives.

“All I know is that my dad told his lawyer to deliver some cheques to [a politician’s] campaign, and asked that he respect him.”

She said the family was considering releasing copies of the cheques along with names of officials and politicians who accepted his support.

Guzmán Ortiz is not the only member of El Chapo’s family to have approached the media, suggesting a concerted attempt by the capo to promote his version of events – or exert pressure on Mexican authorities.

El Chapo’s meeting with Penn was enabled by the actress Kate del Castillo, who hoped to produce a biopic of the drug lord, and his lawyers contacted at least two authors over a possible biography. In recent weeks his third wife, Emma Coronel, has granted a string of television interviews.

El Chapo earned worldwide notoriety with his dramatic jailbreaks from high-security prisons: in 2001 he reportedly left Puente Grande prison near Guadalajara hidden in a laundry basket, and in July 2015 he left Altiplano on a modified motorbike which carried him through a mile-long tunnel.

The second breakout was widely seen as an especially humiliating blow to the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, but according to his daughter, senior officials had already given the green light for the escape.

“My dad’s escape was an agreement,” she said.

At least 34 people have been charged with helping El Chapo escape, including the former director of Altiplano prison and the head of Mexico’s federal prison system.

Towards the end of last year, the net appeared to be closing in on El Chapo after he arranged a meeting with del Castillo and Penn, who were under surveillance by intelligence agents. In October, the Mexican military launched a massive operation in the mountainous region between Sinaloa and Durango states, but failed to capture the cartel boss.

The following month, another attempt to capture El Chapo – during a planned family reunion at the home of El Chapo’s mother in the village of La Tuna, Sinaloa – was also foiled after a high-placed source in the secretariat of national defence tipped off the family, said Guzmán Ortiz.

El Chapo’s luck finally ran out in January, when he was cornered in the coastal town of Los Mochis. The daughter attributed her father’s capture to a betrayal by senior Mexican officials and politicians. “If there’s a pact, they don’t respect it. Now that they catch him they say he’s a criminal, a killer. But they didn’t say that when they asked for money for their campaigns. They’re hypocrites.”

A US citizen, Guzmán Ortiz runs a chain of small businesses in California and speaks fluent English. She compared herself to narco juniors – a Mexican term for the privileged offspring of the country’s drug lords – but said any money she received from her father was clean.

“My businesses are the result of my own efforts,” she said.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/04/el-chapo-entered-us-california-manhunt-prison-break-daughter-says

++ Californian, businesswoman, ‘narco junior’: El Chapo’s American daughter
(California, mujer de negocios, ‘Junior narco’: hija Americana de El Chapo)
‘My dad is not a criminal. The government is guilty,’ says Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz, whose drug lord father is awaiting extradition from Mexico to the US
Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán entró en dos ocasiones en EEUU, mientras era prófugo, aseguró su hija
El Chapo entered US twice while on the run after prison break, daughter claims
José Luis Montenegro
Friday 4 March 2016 12.00 GMT
Abalmy southern California afternoon, tourists and locals mingling in the coffee shop, and at first glance there was little to distinguish the 39-year-old American from other regulars.

Dressed casually in a black and white dress with black leggings and boots, she sipped her coffee and talked about work, kids and the importance of staying in touch with family. Her small chain of carwashes, beauty salons and cafes was going well, she said.
Very well, judging by the Rolex on her wrist, the Louis Vuitton bag at her feet and the Mercedes Benz parked outside.

There was another hint of a life less ordinary. Her features bore a distinct resemblance to a man whose face had long gazed from newspapers and televisions – a man hated and feared and admired for creating the world’s biggest and richest criminal syndicate.

She was Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz, the eldest daughter of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and she was sitting down with the Guardian in the United States, her adopted home, to give her first ever media interview.

“Did you know he’s called Archivaldo and not Joaquín?” she said. “My dad isn’t a millionaire like Forbes says. The magazine said you could count all the millions my old man supposedly had. That’s not true, the Mexican government invented that.”

In the three-hour interview and subsequent telephone and Skype conversations, Guzmán Ortiz revealed her hitherto unreported life in the US and made striking claims about her father, including the allegation that he visited her in California.

“He came twice,” she said. Asked how one of the world’s most wanted fugitives crossed the heavily guarded border she smiled. “I asked him the same, believe me.”

Guzmán Ortiz granted the interview in July 2015 on condition her exact location in California not be disclosed to protect her and her children’s privacy. Verification of certain details – and the hunt and recapture of her father, whom she consulted about the interview – delayed publication until now.

A taskforce of navy marines and police caught Chapo in Los Mochis, a town on Mexico’s Pacific coast, on 8 January after a wild gun battle and chase through sewers and streets. He is now in Altiplano, a maximum security jail north of Mexico City.

Earlier this week, the drug lord instructed his lawyers to stop fighting efforts to extradite him to the US, apparently in the hopes of a lighter sentence. But at 61, Guzmán may well end his days in a US prison cell, the final chapter to an extraordinary life which saw an impoverished orange-seller rise up the narco ranks to infamy and fortune.

El Chapo, which means Shorty, allegedly ran tonnes of marijuana, cocaine and other drugs to the US from the wooded sierras of Sinaloa, a redoubt protected by corrupt officials, an army of gunmen and inhabitants who considered him a narco Robin Hood.

His organisation – the most powerful trafficking group in the Americas – has exerted its influence from New York to Buenos Aires, and while the Sinaloa cartel is broadly considered less sadistic than some of its rivals, El Chapo’s group is believed to be responsible for thousands of deaths.

In the interview Guzmán Ortiz ranged over cartel restructuring and betrayals, the alleged bribery of senior politicians, and El Chapo’s plan to retire. She also spoke of her friendships with a younger generation of “narco juniors” – the second generation of cartel families who have grown up enjoying extraordinary wealth and privilege.

Guzmán Ortiz showed private family photographs of her father, plus letters he sent from jail. The Guardian independently corroborated some details but could not verify her allegations against senior Mexican politicians or her accounts of her father’s business dealings.

The picture that emerged was of a family inhabiting a strange netherworld of notoriety and anonymity, proud and defiant yet also coy and – since Chapo’s capture – resentful. His illicit empire bonded them as social outcasts while at the same time separating them from the patriarch when he was in hiding or in jail.

Despite El Chapo’s fearsome reputation, Guzmán Ortiz depicted her father as a family man who built a successful business with Mexican government approval, only to be betrayed by rival cartel members and politicians.

“My dad is not a criminal. The government is guilty,” she said.
She did not confirm or deny her father smuggled drugs (something he admitted to Sean Penn in January’s Rolling Stone interview) but said he lived humbly and had retired from the family “business” in 2014 before being captured. “My dad had passed the torch to my brother Iván Archivaldo and planned to step down and rest.”

Her account cast new light on a story shadowed in rumour and myth.

The short, stocky young man known Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera was beginning to make a name as a courier and enforcer for the then dominant Guadalajara cartel when he had a relationship in the mid-1970s with a schoolteacher named María Luisa Ortiz, which produced their daughter Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz. She was born in Zapopan municipality in Jalisco state in November 1976.

The Guardian has viewed several identity documents including her birth certificate. Guzmán Ortiz’s identity was also confirmed by Francisco Villa Gurrola, an evangelical minister in El Chapo’s hometown of Badiraguato, who met El Chapo in 2012 and is a close friend of his 87-year-old mother Consuelo Loera.

Of Rosa, he said: “I know her and I can tell you she’s a good woman – she’s the first daughter that Joaquín had with a woman in Jalisco.”

After her parents’ relationship ended Guzmán Ortiz was raised by her mother and a stepfather. He was abusive, she said, and at the age of 10 she stabbed him, landing her in a juvenile treatment centre in Tijuana.

Upon release she reconnected with her father. In 1992, aged 15, he sent her to Scripps Mercy, a private Catholic teaching hospital in San Diego, to be treated for potentially cancerous tumours on her back.

In a sign of the closed – and arguably feudal – narco world, Chapo told his daughter he wanted her to marry Vicente Zambada Niebla, also known as El Vicentillo, the 16-year-old son of another drug lord, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. Both fathers were annoyed, however, when she became pregnant before the marriage. Guzmán Ortiz had a second child with El Vicentillo after they married.

In May 1993 her father’s profession almost cost both their lives. They were in a parking lot at Guadalajara airport, she said, when a group of hitmen dispatched by the rival Tijuana cartel targeted the wrong car, killing a Roman Catholic cardinal, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, and six other people.

“On the day of the assassination I was in a car with my father when they started shooting from every direction. We didn’t know who it was that got killed, but later we heard it was the cardinal. My father had nothing to do with it,” she said.

Amid national outrage over the massacre Chapo sent his daughter to live with an aunt in California, who she had visited regularly from an early age. He was caught a few weeks later and spent the next eight years directing his growing empire from behind bars.

When extradition to the US loomed in 2001 he broke out from Puente Grande prison near Guadalajara, reportedly in a laundry cart, and spent the next 13 years on the run, mostly in his Sinaloa heartland. From here he oversaw a complex business which flooded Chicago, Dallas and other US cities with narcotics and was repeatedly ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the most powerful people in the world.

In contrast to her father’s dramas, Guzmán Ortiz said she spent two quiet decades across the border, becoming a US citizen and learning English, which she speaks fluently, though with an accent.

She said she studied computer science at the University of Phoenix, hairdressing and cosmetology at the Marinello Schools of Beauty in Riverside, and used money from her father to open several businesses.

This attracted the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for suspected money laundering, resulting in 15 days’ detention and a $50,000 bond, she said. She insisted the funding and businesses were legitimate. “My businesses are all in order – the FBI could not prove anything,” she said, before adding: “The hair salons, the soda fountains, the carwashes aren’t in my name any more.”

Asked to confirm that Guzmán Ortiz had been apprehended and detained in San Diego in 2011, special agent Amy Roderick, an FBI spokeswoman, said: “The arresting agency on that case was US customs and border protection.” Ralph DeSio, a spokesman for US customs and border protection, said the agency could not discuss specific cases due to privacy laws.

Meanwhile, said Guzmán Ortiz, El Chapo was hoping to retire, and intended to hand the reins to her half-brother Iván Archivaldo. But, she said, the plan dismayed his cartel colleague El Mayo – one of the last surviving veterans of the Sinaloa cartel.

Chapo was supposed to meet him at a hotel in Mazatlán in February 2014 when authorities swooped and recaptured him.

“He had already retired, it was just a question of smoothing it with El Mayo, but it seems the old man didn’t much like the idea,” she said. “We’re completely sure El Mayo betrayed him. They used to always meet in private places and my dad found it strange that he had suggested that place.”

The government of President Enrique Peña Nieto trumpeted the capture as a triumph and flew Chapo to Altiplano high-security prison.

Guzmán Ortiz said she visited her father in the maximum security facility and that he expressed confidence about getting out – he vowed to attend a family reunion in November 2015 at his mother’s house in Sinaloa.

In July 2015 the drug lord escaped again – this time fleeing Altiplano near Mexico City through an elaborate tunnel. It was widely interpreted as a humiliating blow to the government but according to his daughter, senior officials had approved of the breakout. “My dad’s escape was an agreement,” she said. There was no way to verify that claim.

Guzmán Ortiz said that after the escape, her father visited the US in late 2015. The motive, she said, was family: in addition to her and her children, who live south of Los Angeles, he wished to see his own twin daughters and wife Emma Coronel, a former beauty queen, who live in LA.

Chapo also wished to view his gift to Guzmán Ortiz: a house with five bedrooms, three bathrooms, a game room, a large garden and a garage with space for four cars. “My dad deposited the money in a bank account with a lawyer and a while after he came to see the house, his house.” She declined to elaborate, saying she did not have Chapo’s permission.

Breezy and cheerful at the interview in the coffee shop, Guzmán Ortiz presented herself as a loyal daughter and successful entrepreneur. When her phone buzzed she smiled. “Sorry, it’s my employees. They call me all the time.”

She is separated from El Vicentillo – who was arrested in Mexico City in 2009 and subsequently extradited to the US – and is now partnered with the nephew of another drug lord, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, with whom she has had two children, bringing her total to four.

Guzmán Ortiz said her father was generous – he told her to buy a Ford Explorer as a Christmas gift for her partner. She repeated that any funds she received were licit. Asked about her father’s drug fortune, she laughed. “I don’t know. I can’t answer that question.”

But reached via Skype in January, after Chapo was recaptured and sent back to Altiplano, her tone was darker.

“The government broke its promise,” she complained. “If there’s an pact, they don’t respect it. Now that they catch him they say he’s a criminal, a killer. But they didn’t say that when they asked for money for their campaigns. They’re hypocrites!”

El Chapo now seems intent on negotiating a deal with US authorities in exchange for a lighter sentence, but with several cases against him and hundreds of individual charges, it seems likely that the orange seller who built an underworld empire will die in jail.

His daughter considered it a cruel twist. “In this business there are no friendships, only associates.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/04/el-chapo-daughter-joaquin-guzman-california

A CONTINUACIÓN TEXTO ORIGINAL EN ESPAÑOL DE LA PRIMERA ENTREVISTA

++Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán entró en dos ocasiones en EEUU, mientras era prófugo, aseguró su hija
José Luis Montenegro en Ciudad de México y Rory Carroll en Los Angeles
Friday 4 March 2016 17.18 GMT Last modified on Saturday 5 March 2016 10.09 GMT

El capo del cartel de Sinaloa, Joaquín Guzmán Loera financió las campañas electorales de políticos mexicanos, y entró en dos ocasiones en los Estados Unidos para visitar a familiares en secreto, según su hija mayor.

Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz aseguró que poco después de que “El Chapo” concediera una entrevista a la estrella de Hollywood, Sean Penn, él logró esquivar su cacería con la complicidad de funcionarios mexicanos corruptos y evadió los controles fronterizos de Estados Unidos para llegar a California, pese a ser uno de los fugitivos más buscados del mundo.

También acusó a políticos mexicanos de aceptar sobornos de su padre, y dijo que a cambio, los funcionarios permitieron sus fugas de dos de los penales de máxima seguridad en México.

“Mi papá no es un criminal. El gobierno es el culpable,” le dijo a The Guardian.

No era posible confirmar las acusaciones hechas por Guzmán Ortiz.

Guzmán Ortiz, de 39 años de edad, hizo estas afirmaciones en una serie de entrevistas, con la previa autorización de su padre.

“El Chapo” fue capturado en enero de este año, después de siete meses de fuga, y enviado de regreso a la cárcel de máxima seguridad del Altiplano, en el Estado de México, la misma prisión de la que se escapó en julio de 2015.

El pasado miércoles “El Chapo” dio instrucciones a sus abogados para que no se opusieran a su extradición a los Estados Unidos.

Guzmán Ortiz dijo que el capo había planeado pasar las riendas del Cártel de Sinaloa a Iván Archivaldo, su hermano e hijo del capo, pero fue traicionado por Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada y por el gobierno mexicano, el cual rompió un acuerdo para proteger al “Chapo”.

Es la primera vez que la hija del capo ha hablado con los medios de comunicación. The Guardian ha visto varios documentos que confirman su identidad, entre ellos su certificado de nacimiento y su identificación oficial.

La identidad de Guzmán Ortiz también fue confirmada por Francisco Villa Gurrola, un pastor evangélico de la ciudad natal del “Chapo”, en Badiraguato, Sinaloa. El pastor es un amigo cercano de María Consuelo Loera, la madre de 87 años del capo.

Sus reivindicaciones sobre las visitas del ‘Chapo’ a California generarán interrogantes sobre los servicios de inteligencia y la seguridad fronteriza de Estados Unidos. Como cabeza de la organización criminal más grande y rica del mundo, él era el blanco más preciado de la guerra contra las drogas.

En entrevista con The Guardian, Guzmán Ortiz dijo que su padre cruzó la frontera a finales de 2015 para visitar a sus familiares y ver la casa de cinco recámaras y un enorme jardín que compró para ella y sus cuatro hijos. Guzmán Ortiz concedió la entrevista a condición de que la ubicación de la casa no fuera revelada.

“El dinero me lo depositó mi papá en una cuenta bancaria con un abogado y tiempo después llegó a ver la casa, su casa. Ha venido dos ocasiones.”

Se niega a especificar cómo cruzó de ida y vuelta esa frontera tan fuertemente resguardada, diciendo únicamente que: “Lo mismo me pregunto yo, créame.”

“El Chapo” tiene otros lazos familiares en los Estados Unidos. Su tercera esposa, la ex reina de belleza Emma Coronel, es una ciudadana estadounidense y en 2011 dio a luz a sus hijas gemelas, en el sur de California.

En ese entonces, “El Chapo” había estado fugitivo por más de una década. En aquellos años, el entonces presidente Felipe Calderón especuló que el narcotraficante podría estar escondido al norte del país.

“No está en territorio mexicano, supongo que ‘El Chapo’ está en los Estados Unidos,” dijo al diario The New York Times.

José Reveles, autor de una serie de libros sobre el narcotráfico, dijo que “nada es imposible”, que el Cártel de Sinaloa es la organización pionera en el uso de túneles sofisticados para el contrabando de cargamentos de droga hacia Estados Unidos.

“Todo indica que ‘El Chapo’, sí pudo visitar Estados Unidos porque tiene una gran capacidad intelectual, tiene operadores muy capacitados y expertos en hacer túneles, según informes de la secretaría de la defensa y la procuraduría de México,” dijo Reveles.

El ascenso de “El Chapo”, de un simple vendedor de naranjas al multimillonario que canaliza grandes cantidades de marihuana, cocaína y otras drogas a los Estados Unidos, según la revista Forbes, ha sido durante mucho tiempo objeto de intensa especulación.

La explicación de Guzmán Ortiz fue que su padre compró protección al más alto nivel, a través de reuniones con políticos mexicanos y sus representantes.

“Sólo sé que mi padre le dijo a su abogado que le entregara unos cheques al representante de campaña [de un destacado político], y le pidió que lo respetara.”

Guzmán Ortiz dijo que la familia estaba considerando hacer públicas las copias de los cheques, junto con los nombres de los políticos que aceptaron su apoyo.

Guzmán Ortiz no es el único miembro de la familia de “El Chapo” que ha tenido contacto con los medios de comunicación, lo que sugiere un intento del capo de contar su versión de los hechos o ejercer presión sobre las autoridades de México.

En las últimas semanas, su tercera esposa Emma Coronel ha concedido una serie de entrevistas en televisión, en las cuales se quejó de las condiciones carcelarias del capo.

“El Chapo” Guzmán ganó fama no sólo en México sino en todo el mundo, debido a sus fugas de los penales de máxima seguridad: en 2001 escapó del penal de Puente Grande, Jalisco, supuestamente escondido en un cesto de ropa para lavandería; y en julio de 2015, abandonó el Altiplano por un túnel de 1.5 kilómetros de longitud hacia una casa abandonada, cerca del municipio de Almoloya de Juárez, en el Estado de México.

Esta segunda fuga fue percibida como un golpe contundente al gobierno del presidente Enrique Peña Nieto, pero según su hija, funcionarios de alto nivel ya habían dado luz verde para este escape.

“La fuga de mi papá fue un acuerdo,” dijo.

Al menos 34 personas han sido acusadas de ayudar al “Chapo” a escapar, entre ellos, el ex director de la prisión del Altiplano y la ex coordinadora general de penales federales.

Hacia el final del año pasado, la red parece estar acercándose a “El Chapo”, después de que él organizó una reunión con Penn y la actriz Kate del Castillo, bajo la vigilancia de agentes de inteligencia.

En octubre pasado, autoridades mexicanas pusieron en marcha un operativo militar en las sierras de Sinaloa y Durango, pero no pudieron capturar al líder del cártel.

Al mes siguiente, hubo un nuevo intento por capturar al “Chapo” durante una reunión familiar planificada en la casa de la madre de Guzmán Loera, en el pueblo de La Tuna, Sinaloa, que también fue frustrado después de que una fuente de alto rango de la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional avisara a la familia, dijo Guzmán Ortiz.

La suerte de “El Chapo” finalmente se agotó en enero, cuando fue acorralado en la ciudad costera de Los Mochis. La hija atribuyó la captura de su padre a una traición por parte de los funcionarios mexicanos.

“Sí, [había] un acuerdo que no respetaron. Ahora que lo atrapan dicen que es un delincuente, un matón. Pero eso no decían cuando pedían dinero para sus campañas. ¡Son unos hipócritas!”

Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz es ciudadana de Estados Unidos que dirige una cadena de pequeñas empresas en California y habla con fluidez el idioma inglés.

Ella se compara a sí misma como “narco junior”, un término mexicano que se refiere a los hijos de los grandes capos pero aseguró que el dinero que recibió de su padre era limpio. .

“Mis negocios son el resultado de mis propios esfuerzos,” puntualizó.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/04/joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-entro-eeuu-mientras-profugo-hija-entrevista