The elderly mother of convicted Mexican crime boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has died after spending the last couple of weeks in a private clinic, local media reported on Sunday.
The elderly mother of convicted Mexican crime boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has died after spending the last couple weeks in a private clinic, local media reported on Sunday, December 10th.
El Sol de Sinaloa, a major newspaper in the family’s home state of Sinaloa, located in northwest Mexico, reported that Consuelo Loera was 94 years old.
Other Mexican media outlets, like national daily El Universal, cited “security authorities” in reports of Loera’s death.
Consuelo Loera López, the mother of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, one of the biggest drug traffickers in the history of Mexico, has died. She was 94 years old. The news was reported by local media on Sunday, which cited information from authorities in Sinaloa, the family’s state of origin. Loera López was in the news in recent years after greeting Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on one of his trips to the region.
Loera López has always lived in La Tuna, a community in the municipality of Badiraguato, in the mountains of Sinaloa. The community is the birthplace of El Chapo Guzmán, the historical leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, along with Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, and the Beltrán Leyva brothers. Despite the reported power of the Sinaloa Cartel, life was not always easy for El Chapo’s mother. In 2016, criminals attacked her home in La Tuna, an assault that killed between eight and 12 people.
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