Mexico raffling off El Chapo’s mansions, Aztec Stadium luxury box

Mexican authorities are raffling off jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s ritzy holdings, including multi-million dollar mansions and a luxury box at Aztec Stadium, according to a report.

The “mega raffle,” scheduled for Sept. 15, will peddle 22 of the kingpin’s properties, valued at about $12.5 million, Mexico News Daily said.

Among the prizes up for sale is El Chapo’s 10,000-square-foot estate in Tlalpan, valued at nearly $4 million, which comes with nine bedrooms, an indoor pool, jacuzzis, a wine cellar and a party salon, the outlet said.

Also on the market is a more modest $200,000 home in Sinaloa, which features the bathtub from which the former drug lord dug his way to freedom to elude the Mexican navy in 2014.

Then there’s the 20-seat luxury box at Mexico City’s Aztec Stadium, described as being in “an excellent location” at the venue.

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, is arrested in the beach resort town of Mazatlan, Mexico on Feb. 22, 2014.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, is arrested in the beach resort town of Mazatlan, Mexico on Feb. 22, 2014.
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A bid assistant celebrates a bid for a corvette owned by "El Chapo" during an auction in Mexico City on Nov. 10, 2019.
A bid assistant celebrates a bid for a corvette owned by “El Chapo” during an auction in Mexico City on Nov. 10, 2019.
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Bidders call their prices for a house onced owned by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman during an auction in Mexico City on Nov. 10, 2019.
Bidders call their prices for a house onced owned by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman during an auction in Mexico City on Nov. 10, 2019.
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The box, valued at more than $1 million and good through 2065, is where former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid handed Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona the World Cup trophy after Argentina’s victory in 1986, the paper said.

“Selling properties, residences, even a box that the government had in the Aztec Stadium, all of that is going to be delivered to the people,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at a press conference last week. “And help purchase vaccines and medicine and given away as scholarships.”

Guzman, once one of the most notorious and elusive of Mexico’s drug kingpins, was extradited to the US and convicted in 2019 on numerous charges related to his sprawling drug trafficking enterprise.

One of the six houses once owned by notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
One of the six houses once owned by notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Government of Mexico
Mexican authorities plan to raffle large mansions onced owned by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Mexican authorities plan to raffle large mansions onced owned by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Government of Mexico
One of the six houses once owned by notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
One of the six houses once owned by notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Government of Mexico
One house owned by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman appears deserted and in need of repair.
One house owned by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman appears deserted and in need of repair.
Government of Mexico
Mexican authorities plan to raffle large mansions onced owned by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Mexican authorities plan to raffle large mansions onced owned by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Government of Mexico

He is now serving out his sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado.

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