Joaqun “El Chapo” Guzmán, the infamous Mexican drug lord and former boss of the Sinaloa Cartel, is married to Emma Coronel Aispuro, a former beauty queen of Mexican descent. She was born on July 3, 1989, in San Francisco, California, in the United States, and is well-known for her public union with Guzmán.
Emma Coronel received a lot of media coverage in 2019 since she attended the high-profile trial of her husband in the US. When she was detained in the United States in 2021 on suspicion of drug trafficking and affiliation with the Sinaloa Cartel, she had to deal with her own legal troubles. These accusations included conspiring to distribute marijuana, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine.
The 34-year-old, who was born in the United States, was sentenced to three years in jail in 2021 after pleading guilty to cooperating with Guzman’s Sinaloa drug cartel, including participating in financial operations and conspiring to launder money and sell illicit substances.
The wife of the imprisoned Mexican drug kingpin Joaqun “El Chapo” Guzmán has been freed from a US prison. Her name is Emma Coronel.
She admitted confessed to the drug trafficking allegations against her, and in November 2021, she was given a sentence of three years in prison, which was subsequently reduced.
She was released, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
The 34-year-old is said to have escaped a halfway house in California after being transferred there from a federal prison in June.
Her spouse is incarcerated in a Colorado supermax prison for the rest of his life.
He requested that his wife and their two girls be permitted to see him in the highest security jail in a handwritten letter that was submitted last month.
In 2019, El Chapo Guzmán, 66, was adjudicated guilty of leading the Sinaloa cartel.
US law enforcement authorities believe that the international criminal organization with headquarters in Mexico transported more than 1,000 tonnes of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines, and heroin into the US.
To increase their control, the cartel’s hitmen abducted, assassinated, and tortured members of competing gangs.
Additionally, the Sinaloa cartel bought off senior politicians and law enforcement officials in Mexico and across Central America so they would ignore drug shipments or even inform them of planned searches.
When Emma Coronel was 17 years old and taking part in a local beauty competition, she first encountered Guzmán.
Her father, Inés Coronel, was a senior Sinaloa cartel official who is now in Mexico serving a 10-year term for drug smuggling.
Guzman, who had escaped from jail in a laundry cart in 2001, was in charge of the cartel from a number of lairs in northern Mexico.
When Emma Coronel turned 18, they had a ceremony to formally end their relationship. It is unclear, however, if their marriage was ever recorded with the Mexican government.
The twin girls of the couple were born in California in 2011, and as Coronel had both US and Mexican citizenship, this gave the kids US citizenship.
After a 13-year search, Guzmán was apprehended in 2014 and sent to Mexico’s Altiplano highest security facility.
Guzmán only needed 17 months to make his second escape, this time using a tunnel with ventilation shafts and a motorbike on tracks that connected his cell to a neighboring warehouse.
Prosecutors said during her trial that Coronel was crucial to her husband’s escape.
She was also charged with acting as a courier for her husband while he was at large and imprisoned, delivering messages to his cartel lieutenants and the Chapitos (Little Chapos), his offspring from prior relationships.
Guzmán managed to avoid arrest for six months after his 2015 underground escape until being apprehended by Mexican special forces in Los Mochis, in his native state of Sinaloa.
A year later, he was returned to the US and placed on trial in New York.
Every day, Coronel would show up in the Brooklyn courthouse.
She waved and grinned at him from the audience gallery while looking exquisite in her attire and impeccable grooming.
She claimed to not recognize the graphic details of her husband’s evidence delivered in court and instead referred to him as “an excellent father, friend, brother, son, and partner” in an interview with the New York Times.
The pair nodded in agreement in February 2019 when Guzmán was found guilty.
Before being apprehended at the Dulles airport, close to Washington, DC, in February 2021, Coronel was free for nearly another two years.
She was fully aware of her husband’s illicit activities, according to the prosecution, and “understood the scale of the Sinaloa cartel’s drug trafficking,” they said.
She admitted to trafficking drugs and money laundering.
Coronel requested clemency during her punishment in order to protect her kids. She pleaded with the court, “Please do not let them grow up without a mother’s presence.”
She was originally given a three-year prison term, but it was later reduced, resulting in her release today.
Her intentions for the future are unknown, although her husband’s letter appealing for her to be let to see him would imply she may visit him in Colorado.
The couple’s kids, now 12 years old, are reportedly “studying in Mexico and can only travel to visit their dad during the holidays, two or three times per year at most,” according to Guzmán’s letter.
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