New York Emma Coronel, the wife of an imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is dedicated to reading in a cell where she is locked up for about 22 hours a day.
The lawyer Mariel Colón, who is part of the defense team of Colonel, told The Associated Press that he has called for better conditions for his client’s incarceration, as prison staff only take Colonel out of the cell early in the morning to go to an “inner room” of the Alexandria, Virginia, detention center. . He only spends a few hours in that little room, Colón added.
“Their incarceration conditions have not improved yet,” said the lawyer. “She’s locked up almost all day.”
Colonel, 31, was arrested in February at Dulles International Airport, just outside Washington DC. The wife of “El Chapo”, who is a US and Mexican citizen, is accused of participating in an illegal association for the trade in cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana. USA He also accuses her of joining others to help Guzmán escape from Altiplano prison, in Almoloya de Juárez, Mexico, in July 2015.
Colonel does not share a cell with other inmates, said Colón, who did not answer questions about whether he often speaks on the phone with the two twin daughters he has with Guzman
“She doesn’t leave her cell until they take her into the living room. Nothing to but. Unfortunately, they don’t offer any activities, so they can be distracted, ”said Colón. “All he can do in his cell is read.”
Colón added that he no longer remembered the title of the book Colonel is reading.
Colonel Y Guzman they married in 2007 when she was 18 and he was 50 and one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world. Colonel He attended Guzmán’s long trial in Brooklyn, New York every day in late 2018 and early 2019, in which he was the focus of the cameras every time he entered and exited the building.
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