History of the ‘Casa Rosa’, the mansion where ‘Chapo’ Guzmán’s mother spent her last days

The Tuna, Badiraguato (Sinaloa) forms one of the vertices of the well-known ‘golden triangle’. On the site, an inaccessible and steep place, is the so-called ‘Pink house‘, which built the ‘Chapo’ Guzman for her mother, Consuelo Loera.

Numerous plants and rustic finishes They adorn the main façade of this sanctuary. Simplicity stands out in its interiors. As seen in interviews that Consuelo Loera has offered to the media, the house has plastic tables and chairs, as well as large gardens.

In 1989, the drug trafficker had a chapel built inside the house, so that Doña Consuelo, who professes the Christian religion, could use it along with some residents of the mountains.

The devotion of Chapo his mother is well known. A child abused by his father, she supported him when Joaquín and his 10 brothers were in hardship. Consuelo never left La Tunanot even when his son reached the peak of drug trafficking.

They ransack Tuna’s house

In 2016, this ‘fort’ was looted by at least 150 hitmen allegedly from the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, former enemies of Chapo. The attack on the sacred territory of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel accentuated one of the oldest wars in the drug trafficking underworld.