The side chicks that you never plan on making the main chick are always problematic.
Case in point.
With Chapo’s wife sitting and listening intently in the galley, his mistress Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López gave her vivid account of the daring escape during what turned out to be the most telenovela-worthy day of Chapo’s now nine-week drug trafficking trial in Brooklyn.
In her scintillating testimony, Sánchez said she was lying beside the womanizing narco around 3 a.m. on Feb. 16, 2014, when loud noises startled her awake.
“I heard, like, a lot of thumps and helicopters. I heard yelling,” she recalled.
Right outside the gated two-story property, complete with a swimming pool, the elite team of U.S. and Mexican forces was trying to break down the fortified door with a battering ram.
She said Chapo, completely nude, called her to the bathroom where Condor and a maid were standing around the tub.
Prior trial testimony revealed Chapo had a secret button behind a mirror that raised the tub to reveal a hidden entrance to a labyrinth of underground passages.
They emerged somewhere near a river in Culiacán, she said, and Chapo would spend another six days on the run before the same group of law enforcement tracked him down and arrested him at a hotel in Mazatlán.
Here is the part where Chapo convinced her she was the main chick.
Sánchez told jurors she was just 21 when a 50-something Chapo first started pursuing her in 2010. She became his mistress a year later, she testified.
Asked about the evolution of the relationship, Sánchez told the court she believed they were a genuine couple but that she also feared the cartel boss.
“Until today, I’m still confused, because I thought in our relationship we were romantically involved as partners,” she said.
Sánchez said she started moving marijuana for Chapo in October 2011. Eventually, the shipments topped 400 kilos, she testified.
She took a plea deal in exchange for her testimony, she better watch her back.
Here is how Chapo’s wife responded on IG to the what the mistress had to say.
Flip the pages.