El Chapo Guzmán’s wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, was arrested on Monday at Dulles International Airport (Virginia), which serves the city of Washington. He is accused of involvement in international drug trafficking. He will appear in federal court in the District of Columbia tomorrow via video conference.
Coronel, 31, of dual American and Mexican citizenship, is charged with conspiring to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for import into the United States, according to a Department of Justice report. He is also charged with conspiring with others to aid El Chapo in his escape from the Altiplano prison in Juárez, Mexico, in the summer of 2015, as well as in another attempt in 2017 to secure the extradition of her husband to the US. appearance.
The life of Emma Coronel, wife of El Chapo, in pictures
Joaquin El Chapo Guzmán Loera, the feared leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, the largest organization dedicated to drug trafficking between Mexico and the United States, was sentenced to life in prison in 2019 by a federal court in New York. After 11 weeks of trial, a popular jury found him guilty of 10 crimes, including running a criminal organization.
Former model Emma Coronel often sat alone on the defensive bench in the second row of a room full of reporters, attending her husband’s trial in New York almost every day. There, he listened unmoved to the story of El Chapo’s lieutenants, parading one after the other to betray him and extensively telling the ins and outs of the multinational drug company that led Guzmán for 30 years. One day a witness linked her to the escape from Altiplano prison, another day it was revealed that her husband had texted her asking her to hide his weapons from a police raid.
Colonel entered and left the court wearing exclusive dresses and stilettos it had to be removed every time it passed through the metal detectors that were part of the strict security of a historic process. When one of El Chapo’s mistresses testified, Coronel and her husband each came in red coats, as a sign of complicity and disdain for the witness.
Before becoming the third wife of the world’s most wanted drug lord, Coronel was a beauty queen from Sinaloa. They met when she was 17 and 51 and were married the day she came of age. Today they have two nine-year-old twin daughters, Emali Guadalupe and María Joaquina. Coronel’s father and two brothers have been convicted of participating in the cartel in the past. Colonel spent most of her married life with her husband behind bars or on the run.
Recently, with her husband serving a life sentence, Coronel reinvented herself as influence on Instagram, a social network where he promotes various local Sinaloa businesses among his already more than 400,000 followers.
During the trial of El Chapo, in which his wife was mentioned in the accounts of many of the more than 50 witnesses who appeared, many wondered how Coronel could have avoided problems with the law.