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THE mum of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has died aged 94 after begging for the release of her son from US prison.
María Loera was reportedly unwell and had spent weeks in hospital in Mexico before her death.
Her cause of death has not yet been confirmed but local reports suggest she may have died from natural causes.
Unlike her infamous drug lord son, Loera apparently led a quiet life.
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In 2020 she lobbied Mexican president López Obrador begging for El Chapo’s return to Mexico to serve the rest of his life sentence there instead of in the US.
The president told media at the time that Loera had not seen her son in five years and “didn’t want to die without seeing him”.
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