“But Emma knows perfectly well how El Chapo is… I’m sure that testimony for her was not a surprise.”Įmma Coronel in Mexico after visiting El Chapo in prison, March 2016. “ I think Emma and El Chapo made some show for the media ,” Hernandez says.

She declined to speak with Rolling Stone for this story.) When El Chapo’s mistress, Lucero Guadaloupe Sanchez Lopez, openly sobbed as she took the stand, Coronel laughed. (Coronel has previously denied participating in any criminal activity. When transcripts of their texts, which showed El Chapo asking his wife to hide his weapons, were shown in court, Coronel sat stone-faced. She even petitioned the court to be able to embrace him, a request that was denied by the judge on the grounds that it was “contrary to all the security procedures that have been put in place.” Despite the two’s lack of contact, they apparently managed to negotiate sartorial decisions, one day wearing similar maroon velvet jackets in solidarity.Įven as Guzman’s bloody crimes and marital indiscretions were flaunted one-by-one like slides in a gruesome PowerPoint, Coronel sat primly in the front row, unruffled. To most observers, she seemed deeply concerned for her husband’s welfare, smiling at him or occasionally blowing him kisses during proceedings. He is the father of my children.”ĭuring the El Chapo trial, Coronel affirmed that image by becoming an implacable fixture in the courthouse, sitting in the second row every day with an omnipresent Cheshire Cat grin. “I will follow to wherever he is,” she told the Los Angeles Times of her husband in a 2017 profile. ▶ VIDEO | La glamurosa fiesta estilo Barbie de las hijas de 'El Chapo' Ĭrédito: Instagram antoniotizoc_fotografia /XBcc3tbFlMĪ 29-year-old former pageant queen and journalism student more than 30 years her husband’s junior - with a surgically enhanced pout, POM-bottle curves and a taste for Burberry sheaths and Prada bags - Coronel has largely promoted herself as a small-town girl made good, the simple daughter of a bean farmer turned devoted wife and mother. “With Emma, I have learned that no, it is more complex than that. “When you meet a person, sometimes you can say, ‘This person is like this or like that,’” says Anabel Hernandez, a Mexican investigative journalist and author of the book Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers. Will This Be the First Country Bankrupted by Crypto?Īs details of Coronel’s involvement in her husband’s empire have surfaced - including testimony alleging that she was heavily involved in orchestrating his escape from a Mexican prison - Coronel has proven to be a cunning, fierce and loyal wife and mother, though it’s an open question as to whether her devotion is driven by love, fear, or some combination thereof. (For her part, Coronel denied posting the images, claiming that her private Facebook had been hacked by an impostor, even though a photographer claimed she had commissioned him to post them on Instagram.) Nonetheless, the photos were widely criticized on social media, with many interpreting them as a direct fuck you from Coronel to the millions of people whose lives had been destroyed by her husband’s bloody empire. It was later reported in the Mexican publication Milenio that the party was much less lavish than it appeared, and that the Dream House had been nothing more than a cardboard cutout. In one photo, Coronel Aispuro, in a bedazzled silver pencil skirt and stilettos, poses next to a life-sized Barbie Dream House, grinning broadly as she presides over her handiwork. Last September, an image surfaced on Instagram of Emma Coronel Aispuro, the 29-year-old former beauty queen and wife of Joaquin “ El Chapo” Guzman, hosting her seven-year-old daughters’ Barbie-themed birthday party at a sprawling mansion in Culiacan, in the Mexican region of Sinoloa.

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