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Dog tastes Mexican drug lord Guzman’s jail food for poison

– Common-law wife can’t see him –

Attorneys have claimed that Guzman was being kept in isolation and was being mistreated.

But officials denied that Mexico’s most powerful drug baron was being held incommunicado, saying he had access to a lawyer.

Guzman was able to see a stream of visitors in his previous, 17-month stay in prison, including a woman who entered with a fake ID. One of his lawyers is accused of helping to plan his escape.

This time, the mother of his twin daughters, Emma Coronel, has been unable to see him since his return to prison.

Although it was widely believed that Coronel, a former beauty queen, married Guzman a decade ago, Guerrero said Guzman had not divorced from his previous wife.

For Coronel to be allowed to see him, “he will have to give us a divorce certificate and then he has to demonstrate the common-law marriage,” the official said.

While Guzman awaits possible extradition to the United States, the government has taken extraordinary measures to prevent a new escape at the Altiplano, which nobody had broken out of until his henchmen dug a 1.5-kilometer tunnel to set him free.

A dozen prison officials, including the director, were detained following Guzman’s escape last year.

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Metal rods were woven closely together under the floor to prevent another tunnel entrance like the one that opened into Guzman’s cell shower.

More surveillance cameras were installed and blind spots, like the one behind the shower wall, no longer exist.

Two elite guards now keep watch on Guzman 24 hours per day, with a camera on top of their helmets.

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