Is Mexico Drug Lord Chapo Guzman Getting Prison Goodies By Snitching on Narcos? Carlos Loret de Mola - Fusion
go to original October 9, 2014

Mexico’s most powerful drug lord is redefining the prison barter system in the country’s toughest maximum-security pen.

With a tummy full of Johnny Rockets’ hamburger and a Coke — his final courtesy meal after getting collared by Mexican Marines last February — cartel leader Joaquin “el Chapo” Guzman was put into a barren jail cell with only book and an hour of sunlight to keep him warm. The guards were trying to teach him that he’d have to cooperate if he wanted any additional privileges.

The nights were cold, so Chapo first negotiated a jacket by ratting on a mayor and a high-ranking police officer.

Then his sweet tooth started acting up, so he negotiated a culinary diet of Mamuts, marshmallow cookies covered in chocolate, candy and peanuts in exchange for further cartel intel. Officials say Chapo has now established a good line of communication with CISEN (Mexico’s CIA).

Next on his list of negotiated perks? A television set, according to a high-ranking government official. The timing of the TV giveaway is a little suspicious, considering fellow drug kingpin and rival Hector Beltran-Leyva was captured last week.

Chapo has got a vast network of confederates and accomplices on his mental rolodex — and each one could be offered up in exchange for some prison goodies.

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