THAT’S BARKING MAD! PRISON CHIEFS HIRE DOG TO TEST MEXICAN DRUG LORD EL CHAPO’S FOOD FOR POISON AS FEDERAL PROSECUTORS PROBE HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GLAMOROUS POLITICIAN

Prison authorities admitted using the dog for Joaquin Guzman's safety and authorities also want to question politician Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez who is accused of using fraudulent documents to visit 'El Chapo' in prison a couple of months before he escaped

By Darren Boyle

Daily Mail
January 21, 2016

Mexican prison chiefs have hired a dog to test jailed cartel boss Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's food for poison amid fears that someone might try and assassinate him.

The feared drugs lord was recaptured on January 8 some six months after he escaped through a tunnel from Altiplano high security prison.

Authorities are also investigating his relationship with opposition politician Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez, who is alleged to have used fraudulent documents to visit the crime boss in prison in April 2015, shortly before his dramatic escape.

Eduardo Guerrero, head of Mexico's prison system told Radio Imagen that the dogs would screen food intended for high risk inmates.

He said: 'A K9 tastes the food first because we must care for his physical integrity in case someone wants to poison him.'

Authorities have taken steps to prevent another escape, moving Guzman to a different cell 11 times since he was sent back to the prison.

Guerrero said: 'He was depressed when he arrived, tired, which is what he said in his first interview. He was very tired of being on the run.'

Officials gave Guzman a copy of the classic novel 'Don Quixote' because 'we think that it's an excellent book and I think that we must start giving him this type of reading material, so that he starts reading.'

Meanwhile, investigators are to quiz a politician about her relationship with the cartel leader.

Police were transporting Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez to Mexico City for questioning, Mexico's attorney general's office said.

It is part of a probe into her alleged use of fraudulent documents to visit Guzman in April in the maximum security prison he escaped from a couple of months later.

The state politician, from Guzman's home of Sinaloa, has not been charged with any crime, but she resigned her position with the opposition National Action Party on Wednesday.

On Monday, El Universal newspaper published an interview with attorney general Arely Gomez in which she said the government believed Ms Sanchez spent New Year's Eve with Guzman in Sinaloa.

EDITOR’S NOTE: For a guy suffering from erectile dysfunction, EL Chapo must be gulping down those Viagra or Cialis pills, or else he’s got a helluva long darting tongue.