Badiraguato
Badiraguato | |
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  Badiraguato Location in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 25°21′47″N 107°33′06″W / 25.36306°N 107.55167°W | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| State | Sinaloa |
| Municipality | Badiraguato |
| Founded in | 1669 |
| Government | |
| • Municipal president | Diego Salazar |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,725 |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain Standard Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (Mountain Daylight Time) |
| Website | Official website |
Badiraguato is a small city and seat of the Badiraguato Municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. It stands at 25°21′47″N 107°33′06″W / 25.36306°N 107.55167°W. According to 2010 census, the city reported 3,725 inhabitants. It is the birthplace of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, Mexico's most powerful drug lord.[1]
Badiraguato is located near the municipality of Culiacán. The Sierra Madre Occidental cross Badiragua and provide temperate forest ecosystems in parts of the municipality.
Badiraguato has a varied climate, from hot and arid to snowy forests in its higher parts. Areas vary from 44.5° Celsius, the hottest, to -9°C degrees, the coldest.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was widely criticized for meeting Consuela Loera, 92, mother of convicted drug dealer Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, in Badiraguato during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[2] Loera gave AMLO a letter asking that her son be repatriated to Mexico. She is a 92-year-old lady and I already said, the fatal plague is corruption, not an older adult who deserves all my respect, regardless of who her son is. And I would keep doing it. Sometimes I have to shake hands, because that is my job, to white-collar criminals, who have not even lost their respectability. So how can I not give it to a lady? said Lopez Obrador.[3]
References
- ^ Stephey, M.J. (13 May 2009). "Joaquin Guzman Loera: Billionaire Drug Lord". Times. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
- ^ AMLO greets the mother of "El Chapo" on her visit to Badiraguato (VIDEO) (in Spanish) Proceso, 29 Mar 2020
- ^ "Dear brother in Christ": they disseminate the complete letter of Chapo's mother to López Obrador (in Spanish) Infobe Mexico, 30 Mar 2020
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