Drug lord El Chapo 'is toast' and will never be released, says ex-DEA agent
Notorious drug lord El Chapo will spend the rest of his life behind bars as he has lost all his influence and is now “toast”, a former DEA boss and undercover agent has said.
Brutal crime kingpin Joaquin Guzman, who headed Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, saw his pleas to review his life sentence rejected by New York City judge Brian Cogan. The caged cartel boss will stay in his cell in Florence, Colorado, where he has no access to the outside world and can’t even communicate with other inmates.
Mike Vigil, who worked on undercover drugs operations throughout bloody campaigns in Colombia and Mexico before rising to head of international operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration, said: “I don't believe he'll ever see daylight again now. And his influence is gone. He's now toast. And I believe he'll be resigning himself to the fact that his life is over with.”
Vigil told the Daily Mail that El Chapo’s maximum security confinement means his cell has slits for windows and he will not be able to repeat a dramatic prison escape like he did in Mexico. He added: “He doesn't have any of the access or contact to the cartel that he enjoyed when he was previously incarcerated in Mexico and escaped.
"In fact, he won't even know exactly where he is in the supermax (prison). That is deliberately kept from all prisoners.”
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The cartel kingpin is caged in an American prison (AFP via Getty Images)El Chapo’s legal attempts to get out of prison - including civil suits to assess if his imprisonment was lawful and claims a plea bargain wasn’t sufficiently explored - were thwarted. Judge Cogan said in a statement: “This was perhaps the most notorious criminal prosecution of the decade, and the charges of which the petitioner was convicted could well have resulted in the death penalty but for the terms of the extradition.”
The drug lord, who was responsible for thousands of deaths in his reign as cartel kingpin, will remain in the United States after two escapes from prisons in Mexico, including a dramatic exit through a tunnel west of Mexico City in 2015.
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