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LA MADRE DEL CHAPO | El Chapo's mother Doña Consuelo Loera Pérez de Guzmán | Images on page © Phoebe Eaton 2024 | All rights reserved

It is a Sunday just after services, and Doña Consuelo Loera Pérez de Guzmán, 90, sits framed by the Pentecostal church built for her by her son, the notorious drug lord El Chapo Guzmán,in their hometown of La Tuna in Sinaloa, Mexico, on December 23, 2018. Praying countless hours for his acquittal at the criminal trial in full swing in New York, the woman family members call his "first business partner” always speaks of Chapo with a tender indulgence and an obvious pride. From Amazon Kindle Single In the Thrall of the Mountain King,excerpted in the New York Post, February 2, 2019.

EL CHAPO'S HOMETOWN | ¿De dónde es el Chapo Guzmán? | On the sign, Psalm 34:13:16.

A female missionary who came through long ago, converting Chapo’s mother and sisters to their evangelical faith, had a hand in erecting this sign and others around the town where El Chapo was born. It reads: "Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit: depart from evil and do good, seek peace, and follow it: the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and attentive listen to the cry of them, the wrath of the Lord against those who do evil.”

JOLLY RANCHO LA TUNA | El rancho-mansión donde vive la madre del Chapo.

El Chapo’s birthplace grew from a modest dirt-floor house on this same site with porous adobe walls easily penetrated by scorpions to this manse by the time he was finally apprehended.

POINSETTIA PATIO | A la madre del Chapo le gusta recibir invitados aquí.

El Chapo siempre se asegura de que su madre tenga flores frescas en abundancia.

BANDA SHELL | El kiosco donde al Chapo le gusta hacer sus fiestas.

Chapo’s family has its parties on this deck, musicians playing mariachi and narcocorridos inside this bandshell. In the upper left, Chapo’s own mansion, rancho El Cielo (Heaven), rancho del Chapo, sits on the area’s highest peak, its gardens similarly lined with the same spiky cypress trees looking like a crown of thorns.

THE INSEMINATOR | La cría de ganado es un gran negocio local.

IN THE THRALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING: The Secret History of EL CHAPO, the World’s Most Notorious Narco (In Search of El Chapo Book 1)

By Eaton, Phoebe

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[Journalist PHOEBE EATON receives Mexico’s National Journalism Award 2021. (Periodista Phoebe Eaton recibe Premio Nacional de Periodismo 2021 del Club de Periodistas de México para el libro, Esclavizado por el Rey de la Montaña: La historia secreta del Chapo, el narco más famoso del mundo.)]

El Chapo's 2016 intake interview at Mexico's Altiplano prison.

click HERE to watch EL chapo’s uncut 2016 intake interview at altiplano prison IN Almoloya de Juárez (courtesy of LATINUS).

Welcome arch to Badiraguato municipality, where many high-rank members of the Sinaloa cartel are from. — Many high-ranking *narcos de Sinaloa* were born in this municipality—as was El Chapo Guzmán.

Más fotos del puebla donde nació y vivió El Chapo, La Tuna, Sinaloa, dentro de este sencillo Kindle de Amazon/MORE PHOTOS OF EL CHAPO’S HOMETOWN INSIDE THIS AMAZON KINDLE SINGLE/Best El Chapo Books (U.S. $2.99).

Click for preview on Google Books HERE.

La ganadora del Premio Nacional de Periodismo 2021 del Club de Periodistas de México.

Mexico's International Journalism Award 2021 certificate and medal.

“Otra mirada para leer a las deidades sobre las que se cobijan personajes que lindan en la leyenda del narcotráfico.”
— CLUB DE PERIODISTAS DE MÉXICO

Citation for Mexico's International Journalism Award 2021 given to journalist Phoebe Eaton.

Journalist Phoebe Eaton with El Chapo's mother María Consuelo Loera Pérez, la madre del Chapo Guzmán.jpg — **ABOVE, Phoebe Eaton with** **El Chapo** **Guzmán**’s **90-year-old mother** **Doña Consuelo Loera Pérez.**