Mexico president calls 'El Chapo' sentence inhumane, vows better society

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday called the jail condit...

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday called the jail conditions of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman inhumane, while vowing to bring down violence stemming from drug violence by create a society less obsessed with material wealth.

Lopez Obrador said at his regular morning conference that sentences like the one for El Chapo - “a sentence for life in a hostile jail, hard, inhumane” - made a life no longer worth living. When asked whether he expected violence to rise further over coming weeks following the sentencing of El Chapo, Lopez Obrador said: “No, on the contrary. We think that bit by bit the number of criminal incidents will decline.”

Lopez Obrador said Mexico would explore whether there would be legal ways for Mexico to claim Guzman’s assets, adding that Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard would be in charge of the matter.

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