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Carola Guerrero De León

'El Chapo' Ditches Legal Team and Takes on Own Defense Despite Not Speaking English; Claims Lawyers Were 'Inefficient'

A poster with the face of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, reading "Wanted, Again", a day after the government informed of the escape of the drug kingpin from a maximum-security prison. (Credit: YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

In a new desperate attempt to overturn his conviction, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, who is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, ditched his legal team and started representing himself.

As revealed by a series of letters pinned by the founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Guzmán is not only requesting a new trial, but also changes in the conditions of his confinement, which he described as a "great torture, 24 hours a day."

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