Mexican President Visits ‘El Chapo’s’ Home Turf Seeking Reconciliation

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a baby while leaving an event in Badiraguato, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, Mexico, on Feb. 15, 2019. Daniel Becerril/Reuters

BADIRAGUATO, Mexico—Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visited the birthplace of the country’s most infamous drug trafficker, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, on Feb. 15, calling for peace and reconciliation days after a U.S. jury convicted the kingpin.

Speaking to a crowd in Badiraguato, a mountainous municipality in the northwestern state of Sinaloa long associated with cartels, Lopez Obrador said people must not be “stigmatized.”