The next month, Coronel gave her first ever interview to Hernández, complaining repeatedly about the conditions in which Guzmán was being held.Ĭoronel told Hernández she had learned of his escape from the Altiplano prison from television. In January 2016, Mexican marines recaptured Guzman in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. On July 11, 2015, Guzmán escaped through a mile long tunnel that had been dug to the shower in his cell. Guzmán was sent to the maximum security Altiplano prison outside Mexico City while his lawyers fought his extradition. On February 22, 2014, she was with Guzmán and their daughters in the Pacific resort town of Mazatlan when he was captured by Mexican marines. She wore an enormous crown and a closed mouth smile, and looked directly at the camera.Īfter their wedding, she disappeared from public view until it was reported in 2011 that she had given birth to their twin daughters in Los Angeles County. In 2013, he was arrested with one of his sons and other men in a warehouse with guns and hundreds of kiograms of marijuana across the border from Douglas, Arizonaįor years, Emma Coronel’s only public image was a photograph from 2007, when she was crowned the beauty queen of the festival in Canelas, the town where she grew up. “I don’t imagine she really had many options to say no, I won’t marry you,” Hernández said.įor a time, Coronel’s father, Ines Coronel Barreras, allegedly took charge of moving the Sinaloa cartel’s marijuana across the border into Arizona. He was 50 and one of the world’s most powerful drug traffickers. She and Guzmán married in 2007 when she 18 years old. “Sometimes I loved him, and sometimes I didn’t,” the woman said, tearfully. She described hopping out of bed, locating a secret hatch and running through a drainage tunnel, a naked Guzmán leading the way. Sitting in the courtroom, Coronel heard a woman testify to how she and Guzmán made a dramatic escape from a middle-of-the-night raid on one of his hideouts by Mexican marines.
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Guzmán has been married numerous times as was made clear in his trial in New York, he has been far from faithful. “Her mother worried something like that could happen, or she could become a target of the government.” “Her mother was also worried that an enemy cartel could harm Emma because she was unleashed, was out in the street a lot, the clubs, excessive in her social life,” Hernández said the source told her.
Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman is considered to have been the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.Ĭoncern was also building among Guzmán’s sons and Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, said Hernández, who was the first journalist to ever interview Emma Coronel. Late last year, the Mexican investigative journalist Anabel Hernández – who has written extensively about the Sinaloa cartel, including a 2019 book about the diary of cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada’s son – said a source told her that Coronel’s mother, Blanca Aispuro, was worried about the turn her daughter’s life was taking. This breaks a tradition of secrecy and a style specifically within the leadership of the Sinaloa cartel.” Then, “she begins to take on more of a celebrity attitude. Until the trial, “Emma had remained anonymous like practically all partners of Sinaloa cartel capos,” said Adrián López, executive editor of Sinaloa’s Noroeste newspaper. * El Chapo trial becomes New York's latest tourist attraction * 'I'm going to give her an AK-47': US jury sees El Chapo texts sent to wife while on the run * El Chapo jury reaches guilty verdicts on 6th day of deliberations
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