Chapo Guzman Claims to Be a Farmer Who Earns 20,000 Pesos a Month Blog del Narco
go to original March 26, 2014

This handout photo released on February 25, 2014 by Mexican Attorney General office (PGR) shows Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka 'el Chapo Guzman' signing a document in Mexico City. (AFP)

No smoking, no drugs or have tattoos. Can not remember his phone number. He does not have email. Only drinks alcohol sporadically. He is a farmer, and that is all he has ever been.

Twenty years after his first statement after being arrested in Guatemala, he claims he has not diversified his activity except in farming.

Now also grows corn, sorghum and sunflowers. Receives a monthly income of 20,000 pesos. He says he does not belong to any cartel. Nor does he know anyone in organized crime. Joaquin Guzman Loera is known as “El Chapo” Guzman, and he answered seven questions .

Of the seven answers from “El Chapo” Guzman to the Federal Public Ministry agent and a lawyer, two stood out: He does not belong to any cartel and he has a monthly income as a farmer of twenty thousand pesos per month.

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