Lawyers for drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman said on Friday he told them that guards at Mexico’s Altiplano prison won’t let him sleep, and that plans to make a movie about his life with actress Kate del Castillo are still on.
Guzman’s lawyer, Jose Refugio Rodriguez, said drug lord still wants the movie to be made but that the accused drug lord won’t contribute money to it.
“He wants it to be done,” Rodriguez said, adding that Guzman’s belief is that Del Castillo is still in charge of the project. Del Castillo has not commented directly on whether the movie plans are still on.
“I know that Kate is Mr Joaquin Guzman’s representative ... she is authorised to do it,” he said. “And he told me [on] Monday that the movie has to go forward.”
Rodriguez said Guzman’s involvement would be to authorise the use of his name and story.
At an impromptu news conference outside the prison west of Mexico City, another of Guzman’s lawyer said guards waken Guzman every two hours at night, and the practice is equivalent to torture.
“He said ‘what I want is for them to let me sleep. They are making me into a Zombie’,” Juan Pablo Badillo quoted Guzman as saying.