Emma Coronel Aispuro

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Coronel and the second or maternal family name is Aispuro.
Emma Coronel Aispuro
Born (1989-07-02) July 2, 1989 (age 32)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
OccupationBeauty pageant contestant
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2007)​
Children2
Parent(s)Inés Coronel Barreras
RelativesIgnacio Coronel Villarreal

Emma Modesta Coronel Aispuro[1] (Spanish: [ˈema moˈðest̪a koɾoˈnel ajsˈpuɾo]; born July 2, 1989) is an American former teenage beauty queen. She is known for being the wife of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, considered Mexico's most-wanted drug lord until he was imprisoned for life. In February 2021 she was arrested in the United States on charges of conspiracy to unlawfully import and distribute illegal drugs, and in November was sentenced to three years in prison.

Early life[]

Emma Modesta Coronel was born July 2, 1989,[1] near San Francisco, California, US,[2] to Blanca Estela Aispuro Aispuro and Inés Coronel Barreras, a cattle rancher[3] and deputy of Guzmán who was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin designation.[4] She grew up in the remote Durango village of La Angostura.[5]

Career[]

Coronel entered the 2007 Coffee and Guava Festival beauty pageant in Canelas, Durango, Mexico.[5] Each contestant was required to host a party in honor of her candidacy; Coronel held hers on Three Kings Day. In this event, Coronel reportedly met Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who traveled to Canelas to meet her. Both of them reportedly agreed to marry that day.[a][7]

Arrest, incarceration, plea deal and prison sentence[]

Coronel was arrested at Dulles International Airport on February 22, 2021, for conspiracy to unlawfully import and distribute illegal drugs.[8] Authorities allege that she aided her husband with his escape from a Mexican prison in 2015 and also with a later second escape attempt in 2016.[9][10] However, anonymous sources told Vice News that she had voluntarily surrendered and was seeking a court settlement.[11] On 14 May 2021, El Pais reported her lawyer had denounced her conditions in Alexandria, saying she spent 22 hours per day in a small cell, with nothing to do but reading.[12]

On 10 June 2021, in a plea deal she pled guilty to federal drug trafficking charges, where she had been charged in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.[13] On 30 November 2021 she was sentenced to three years in prison in the United States.[14][15]

Personal life[]

In the summer of 2011, Coronel traveled to Lancaster, California, to give birth to twin girls at Antelope Valley Hospital. Guzmán's name was left off the children's birth certificates because the U.S. Department of State was offering a bounty of five million dollars for his capture.[5]

In a 2016 Telemundo interview conducted by investigative reporter Anabel Hernández, Coronel argued that the life of her husband was in danger and begged for justice on his behalf.[16][17] In 2019, she attended the New York trial of El Chapo with her children.[12] She attended courtroom almost every day of the trial, in what the press described as solidarity with her husband.[18] She was interviewed in the reality show Cartel Crew on VH1.[12]

See also[]

  • Mexican Drug War

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ In an interview conducted by the Mexican magazine Proceso in 2010, Guzmán's associate Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada claimed that Guzmán never married Coronel.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Mexican cartel leader's wife gives birth in U.S., official says". CNN. September 29, 2011.
  2. ^ "6 Facts You Didn't Know About El Chapo's Beauty Queen Wife". www.latina.com. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  3. ^ "PHOTOS: Emma Coronel Guzman- Joaquin El Chapo Guzman's Wife (Bio, Wiki)". DailyEntertainmentNews.com. February 24, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  4. ^ "Treasury Targets Leading Figures of Sinaloa Cartel". www.treasury.gov. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  5. ^ a b c Daly, Michael (February 26, 2014). "Drug Cartel Beauty Queens Face an Ugly End". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  6. ^ Scherer García, Julio (April 3, 2010). "Proceso en la guarida de 'El Mayo' Zambada". Proceso (in Spanish).
  7. ^ Dávila, Patricia (February 22, 2014). "Cuando El Chapo se casó con Emma". Proceso (in Spanish).
  8. ^ "Emma Coronel Aispuro: The rise and fall of a drug kingpin's wife". BBC News. June 2, 2021. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  9. ^ Slisco, Aliya (February 22, 2021). "El Chapo's Wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, Arrested in Virginia on Drug Trafficking Charges". Newsweek. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
  10. ^ Agren, David (February 23, 2021). "Emma Coronel, wife of El Chapo, arrested on drug trafficking charges". The Guardian. Mexico City, Mexico. Archived from the original on February 23, 2021. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  11. ^ "El Chapo's Wife Emma Coronel Turned Herself In". www.vice.com. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  12. ^ a b c Varela, Micaela (May 14, 2021), Emma Coronel: How the 'Kardashian of Sinaloa' went from influencer to prisoner, Mexico: El Pais, p. 1, retrieved June 5, 2021
  13. ^ Mark, Michelle. "The wife of 'El Chapo,' Emma Coronel Aispuro, pleaded guilty to helping run his multi-billion dollar drug empire". Insider.
  14. ^ Lynch, Sarah N. (November 30, 2021). "U.S. judge sentences wife of Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' to three years in prison" – via www.reuters.com.
  15. ^ "El Chapo's Wife Only Got 3 Years in Prison". www.vice.com.
  16. ^ Larimer, Sarah (February 22, 2016). "The glamorous wife of El Chapo' explains why you should feel sorry for the drug lord". Washington Post.
  17. ^ Hernández, Anabel (February 21, 2016). "Murder, torture, drugs: Cartel kingpin's wife says that's not the 'El Chapo' she knows". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  18. ^ Emma Coronel Aispuro: The rise and fall of a drug kingpin's wife, Britain: BBC, June 2, 2021, p. 1, retrieved June 5, 2021
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