Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, is released today after serving two years in prison. That writes the British newspaper The Guardian. Coronel was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 for her role in the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the oldest and most powerful criminal organizations in the world.
Coronel’s original sentence of three years in prison was reduced after she admitted to US authorities that she had acted as a messenger when her husband was imprisoned in the Altiplano prison near Mexico City in 2014. She also quickly proved willing to give up the one and a half million dollars (1.4 million euros) that she would have earned from the cartel’s criminal activities.
The former Mexican beauty queen is more than thirty years younger than her criminal husband. She married Guzmán in 2007 at the age of 17, with whom she has two daughters, twins.
Notorious drug lord
‘El Chapo’ is one of the founders of the cartel and the most notorious drug lord in recent history. He is serving a life sentence in the United States. In the 1990s he became a top criminal thanks to the drug trade to the United States and the extreme violence he used against rival gangs and the Mexican government. In 2001, he made a spectacular escape from the Puente Grande prison in the central Mexican state of Jalisco in a laundry basket.
In 2014, El Chapo was arrested for the second time after a years-long manhunt, followed by his second escape a year later. In 2016, he was arrested again and extradited to the United States, where he was sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors also accused Coronel of aiding her husband’s escape attempts. According to Mexican media, it is currently unclear whether Coronel could also be prosecuted in Mexico for her role in the cartel.
According to American and Mexican authorities, the Sinaloa Cartel is now led by the sons of ‘El Chapo’ and the elderly Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, with whom he founded the organization. The Sinaloa Cartel plays an important role in the bloody Mexican drug war. More than a quarter of a million people have been killed in that criminal conflict, which has lasted nearly two decades and pitted dozens of larger and smaller gangs against each other and the Mexican authorities, according to the Mexican government. Many tens of thousands of Mexicans have also disappeared without a trace.
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2023-09-12 23:04:04
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