It was the trump card in the defense of the most famous drug trafficker in the world. Hidden behind her large Gucci glasses, Emma Coronel Aispuro did not miss a single hearing in the thunderous trial of her husband, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the former head of the powerful cartel of Sinaloa, Mexico, which was held in 2019 At New York. Since then, her busty forms and her taste for social networks have earned her the nickname “Kardashian of Sinaloa”.
At 31, this former beauty queen has just been arrested, in turn, in the United States, accused of drug trafficking and complicity in escape. Her story, at the heart of drug culture, throws a harsh light on the tragic role of women within the Mexican cartels.
Handily elected
On February 22, Emma Coronel Aispuro was arrested when she got off the plane at Washington International Airport. She is accused by the American courts of “Trafficking in cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin and marijuana”. She would also have collaborated in the spectacular escape of her husband, in 2015, from a Mexican high security prison. It was she who gave him the GPS allowing him to trace a high-tech tunnel 1.5 km long.
Thirty-two years her junior, Emma Coronel Aispuro has always known her husband on the run or in prison. Nothing surprising for this daughter of a drug trafficker arrested in 2013 and niece of one of the right-hand men of “El Chapo”, killed three years earlier.
The pretty brunette met him in 2006, during a ball in a small village in the mountains of Sinaloa (northwestern Mexico), his stronghold. Joaquín Guzmán invites him to dance. She was then only 17 years old, he was divorced twice and father of eleven children.
She entered the beauty contest in the town of Canelas, in the state of Durango. Alongside musicians and armed men, he arrives to ask for her in marriage. She was elected with flying colors. The lovebirds get married on July 2, 2007, the 18th birthday of Emma Coronel, who will give birth to twins four years later in the United States. Like her daughters, she was born in California and has dual citizenship.
Influence in designer bikini
“He is a loving husband and a caring father”, she told the media in 2019 during the trial of “El Chapo”, which resulted in his sentence to life imprisonment (he is serving his sentence in a high security prison in Colorado). Sitting alone on the side of the defense, in the second row of a court filled with journalists, the elegant wife, dignified and resigned, was in the spotlight.
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