Politician Will Go to Trial After Alleged Love Affair with El Chapo Guzman Nathaniel Janowitz - VICE News
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Lucero Sanchez Lopez is likely to face charges stemming from alleged visits to Joaquin El Chapo Guzman before and after his July 2015 jailbreak. (EPA)

A Mexican legislator could face jail time for allegedly using fake ID to visit Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán during the drug lord's 17-month spell behind bars prior to his spectacular escape last July.

Mexico's Congress stripped Lucero Sánchez López of her immunity from prosecution on Monday so she can be tried for allegedly falsifying documents. The 27-year-old Sánchez, a deputy from Chapo's home state of Sinaloa, could face a prison sentence of up to 12 years if found guilty.

Authorities released a photograph that they have said shows the young politician flashing a false identity at a security camera when visiting El Chapo in 2014, when he was being held in the Altiplano maximum-security prison.

Investigators also reportedly found her genuine driver's license in a car outside the safe house in the Sinaloan city of Los Mochis from which El Chapo narrowly escaped a special forces sting operation in the early hours of January 8 this year. While he got away through a tunnel into the drainage system, he was captured hours later attempting to flee the city in a stolen car, ending his six months on the run.

At the same time the media have scrutinized Sánchez over her alleged links to the notorious kingpin with whom many have reported she had a romantic relationship.

Sánchez herself has denied she has ever met with Guzmán, refuted hints he could be the father of her two children, and ruled out that she ever received money from the drug lord for her electoral campaign.

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