• ENCOUNTER: Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador defended a brief encounter she had Sunday with the mother of convicted drug lord Joaquin Guzmán Loera, aka El Chapo, during a working trip to the northwestern state of Sinaloa amid a national quarantine against coronavirus.
• LETTER: According to López Obrador, María Consuelo Loera -a 92-year-old woman- wrote him a letter asking for his help before the US Government so that she would be allowed to visit the Sinaloa’s Cartel, who is serving a life sentence at the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
• RESPECT: “She’s a respectable old woman no matter who her son is”, said López Obrador during a press conference on Monday. “Mothers have special, sublime love for their children. She says she hasn’t seen him in 5 years and she doesn’t want to die without seeing him”.
• MEETING: Despite Mexico’s Health Ministry urging Mexicans to stay at home due to coronavirus, López Obrador traveled to Badiraguato, a municipality in the mountains of Sinaloa to oversee a road construction project. It was then that he greeted Guzmán’s mother who came to see him at the site.
