- Tara McKelvey.
- BBC reporter
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Emma Coronel Aispuro.
Emma Coronel Aispuro (Emma Coronel Aispuro) lived a glamorous life in New York, enjoying being with the Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman nicknamed “El Chapo” Joaquin Guzman Loera (Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as Joaquin Guzman) marriage brings various benefits. But now she has been arrested and locked up in a prison in Virginia, USA. How about this “drug queen”?
In the William Truth Adult Prison in Alexandria, Virginia, the window of the cell was a small rectangular space cut with red bricks, and Coronel was kept in a small cell alone.
Her lawyer, Mariel Colón Miro, said that Coronel spent time in prison reading romance novels.
The living conditions in the prison are in stark contrast to the extravagant life that Coronel once had.
A few months before she was arrested, she was planning to launch a clothing brand called “El Chapo Guzman”: the couple had a status as a fashion icon in Mexico, and their daughter also entered the fashion industry under the name of the father of the drug lord. .
In 2019, during Guzman’s trial, I visited Coronel in New York, when she was wearing expensive jewelry and watches.
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Guzman, a drug lord nicknamed “Dwarf” (profile photo).
Earlier this year, the 31-year-old former beauty queen was arrested at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. She is accused of assisting the husband of the drug lord to run the notorious Sinaloa Cartel.
64-year-old Guzman is currently serving his sentence in the Federal Special Prison in Colorado. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
FBI officials said that Coronel was arrested in 2015 after being accused of conspiring to distribute cocaine and assisting her husband in planning to escape from prison.
Coronel’s story seems to belong to an individual, consisting of a cheating husband, mistress, and a criminal enterprise. However, her story reveals the secret world of drug cartels and the women in it.
The date of her trial has not yet been determined. If convicted, Coronel could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
However, leaving aside the question of guilt or innocence, experts in the world of drug trafficking say that Coronel has actually created an unusual role for herself: she is a public figure, an entrepreneur and a janitor, and decides that her husband is in When running a drug cartel, who can contact her husband?
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Professor Cecilia Farfán-Méndez of the University of California, San Diego, said that traditionally, the wife of a drug dealer is regarded as “sexually attractive” but “incapable”. However, Coronel is different. “She showed that women (in drug cartels) can serve as’chats’ (that is, acting as speakers).”
However, serving as a “staff” in a drug cartel is a dangerous job.
Derek Maltz, a former agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, told the BBC: “In this business, you are either arrested or murdered.”
Coronel assumed a brave posture at the time and planned to establish a fashion company, but in fact the FBI was approaching. As Malz said: “The world around her is collapsing, and the walls she built are collapsing.”
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Emma Coronel Aispuro walks out of Brooklyn Federal Court after her husband was sentenced (file photo on July 17, 2019).
Kidnapping and murder
During her husband’s trial, Coronel was enjoying chopped lettuce at the Brooklyn Federal District Court. She and her friends sat in the cafeteria, jokingly discussing each other’s mothers and how to deal with them.
“She has a personality,” said her lawyer Mariel Colon Miro. “The Emma I know is energetic and always smiling.”
Coronel is a citizen of Mexico and the United States. She met Guzman at the age of 17, and they soon married. They have twins, Maria Joaquina and Emali.
During the Guzman trial, Coronel appeared in court almost every time. During the rest of the trial, she wore stiletto heels walking up and down the marble corridor, the floor creaked.
“A goddess of Sinaloa,” said Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, a security analyst who studied this drug cartel in Mexico and now lives in Paris. Coronel loves to use red lipstick, paired with diamonds and skinny jeans, reflecting the popular image of a “gangster girl” (buchona), a lover of a drug lord.
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Many people were shocked that Coronel was still showing off his wealth during the trial.
George Mason University scholar Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera) conducted research in Sinaloa, Mexico, where the criminal group led by Guzman is located.
Coronel redefined the term buchona: “They wear expensive clothes and hold Louis Vuitton handbags. Everything is so ostentatious, and she is the perfect representative of this image. Of course, everything It is also related to appearance, including cosmetic surgery.”
But Correa Cabrera added that the most striking feature of her body is the “curve” behind her, “the body has obvious lines and unevenness.”
And her charming image is in sharp contrast with the dangerous business run by her husband.
Guzman used violence to maintain control of the drug market and get paid, which brought wealth to his wife and family. Since the Mexican government launched a crackdown on the drug cartel led by Guzman in 2006, more than 300,000 people have been killed. The victims included Guzman’s enemies and close associates with him. The body of a lover of Guzman was found in the back of a car. She was reportedly killed by Guzman’s opponent.
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The date of her trial has not yet been determined. If convicted, Coronel could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
The price of loyalty
Guzman’s former mistress Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez (Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez) testified against him during the trial.
Sanchez Lopez was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border in June 2017 for being involved in drug trafficking.
She later pleaded guilty and faces ten years in prison. But as part of the plea negotiation, the mother of two children agreed to cooperate with the U.S. prosecutor. Wearing a blue prison uniform, Sanchez explained his affair with Guzman in court and the latter’s actions as the boss of the drug cartel.
Sanchez’s face twitched nervously in the courtroom, blinking constantly. Guzman, who was sitting not far away, seemed a little impatient, staring at the clock on the wall.
Coronel was sitting in the second row of the audience. She combed her long hair with her fingers from time to time, and wore a velvet jacket, just like her husband’s.
Guzman’s lawyer William Purpura said that Coronel wore the same jacket to demonstrate the power of marriage. Coronel wanted to send a message to Sanchez by wearing matching couple outfits on the day the former mistress testified.
Pupla explained, “Coronel is saying to his mistress:’Fuck you!'” She was saying, “My husband belongs to me.”
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Emma Coronel Esprow is often surrounded by reporters.
After speaking in court, Sanchez returned to the cell. Coronel went to Manhattan for dinner. However, shortly afterwards, the situation of the two women was reversed.
Sanchez has been released from prison, while Coronel is in prison and cannot be released on bail.
Many people were shocked that Coronel was still showing off wealth during her husband’s trial, and were disappointed that she was still loyal to the drug lord husband.
Security analyst Glend Mason said: “She is seen as a fool.”
But Sanchez didn’t think so.
When Sanchez’s lawyer, Heather Shaner, told Coronel that she was in jail, she did not appear to be gloating.
Instead, Sanchez’s lawyer recalled: “Sanchez felt sad because she said:’There is another mother who has to leave her child.’”