Sánchez says El Chapo wanted music career
Infobae México reports that former legislator Lucero Sánchez López said Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán told her he wanted to become a musician and join Banda El Recodo, while also recounting their relationship and a 2014 tunnel escape.
Infobae México reports that Lucero Sánchez López, a former Sinaloa state legislator popularly known as the “Chapodiputada,” said in an interview with YouTuber Jonathan Sámano, known as Gusgri, that Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán once told her he had wanted to become a musician. According to Sánchez López’s account, Guzmán said he would have liked to join Banda El Recodo, founded by Don Cruz Lizárraga, if he had not entered drug trafficking. Infobae México presents the account through Sánchez López’s recollection of the interview.
Sánchez López said she met Guzmán in 2010 while working as a stylist and later learned that he was a fugitive who had escaped Puente Grande prison in Jalisco in 2001. She described him as having grown up in a poor home with a dirt floor and said he told her he had never wanted to become involved in criminal activity, although she believed limited opportunities and his desire for control influenced his decisions. She also recalled that he told her he did not want to provoke more enemies and that he sent her to request money for crops and payroll, giving her between $10,000 and $15,000 for purchases, according to her testimony.
The interview also included Sánchez López’s account of living with Guzmán and escaping through a drainage tunnel in Culiacán shortly before Mexican naval forces captured him in Mazatlán on February 22, 2014. She said the tunnel was dark and flooded, that she injured her hands on the walls, and that Guzmán asked her to turn off a cellphone because he feared the signal could reveal their location. Infobae México attributes those details to Sánchez López and reports her recollections about Guzmán’s statements, conduct, finances, and the tunnel escape.