Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Guzman Has Launched a PR Campaign

Can't we tell some clients "No"?

Now this you won’t believe: Someone took on sinister Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman as a client for public relations.

Guzman wants his lawyers, and even his common-law wife, to “keep his name in the news.”

According to this AP report via Fox News Latino, his “PR team” have set up shop outside Mexico’s supreme court and the White House. There was even a news conference outside Altiplano prison, which Guzman now calls home (and previously escaped from, ‘Shawshank’-style in July).

emma coronelEmma Coronel, mother of Guzman’s twin 4-year-old daughters, has given unprecedented media interviews, issuing dire warnings about his health and pressuring the government to improve the conditions he’s enduring.

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