“I Didn't Know He Was A Drug Trafficker": Lucero Sanchez Presents Her Book ‘La Chapo Diputada’.

 ”Char” for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated from LOS NOTICIERISTAS 

07/24/2024

Culiacán, Sinaloa - A man with “many changing personalities” is how Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López described Joaquin Guzmán Loera in her new book “La Chapo Diputada” mi historia con el señor de la montaña”, finally presented to the public by the author herself on Wednesday, July 24, 2024.

It is a 408-page book in which Sánchez López, a former state deputy in Sinaloa, recounts her origins, her early life, her youth and how she met the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, who is currently serving a life sentence in the maximum security prison ADX Florence, Colorado.

Some of the words given by the native of the municipality of Cosalá, Sinaloa, to the media who attended the conference and who also interviewed her off-camera, revealed that when she first met Guzmán Loera, she did not know he was a drug trafficker but a cattle rancher who was very well regarded by all the people.

“He had many changing personalities. They said he was a cattle rancher, I said that everyone saw him as a good man, but as time went by I discovered that he was a drug trafficker,” she said in an interview with Telemundo.

One of the questions the journalist asked Lucero was if she considers that Joaquin Guzman is still in charge of the Sinaloa cartel, to which she answered:

“I don’t think so, I feel that he is already far away from that and maybe there he can find a little bit of peace, because he is a great believer of god”.

After serving her sentence in 2020, the former deputy of Sinaloa wrote a book of her biography where she talks about her first love, how she met and began a ‘strange’ and dangerous relationship with “El Chapo”, confrontations in the mountains and operations. She also narrates her time as a businesswoman, her transition from beauty queen of Cosalá to local congresswoman, the death of her sister Carolina, the capture of Guzmán Loera in the Miramar condominiums in Mazatlán, the days on the run, the last recapture and her visits to Altiplano to see him.

The book went on sale on July 14, 2024, although it is only available in the United States and Mexico. The 405-page book is so far only available on Amazon and is priced at US $34.99, about $630.00 pesos