They created their love story within the world of scandals and illicit acts. However, they do not see it that way, at least not her, the current wife of “El Chapo” Guzmán and mother of two of his daughters, Emma Coronel. She knows in the following how the relationship that the couple has forged has been since the one also detained today was practically a minor.
The story of the young woman and the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, the largest drug trafficking organization in Mexico, takes us back in time, many years ago, when Coronel was a minor and met the boss during a celebration in his hometown.
“He was dancing with another girl, I was dancing with my boyfriend at the time and we met in the center of the floor. He very flirtatiously smiled at me and after a while someone said to me: ‘What does the man say if you want to dance with him’ and I said: ‘Ah, okay’, because in the ranches, even if you have a boyfriend, you tend to dance with everyone the people who invite you”, confessed Coronel during an interview with the journalist Anabel Hernandez for Telemundo in 2016.
According to Emma, who is currently 33 years old, when she met him she never saw him as a partner, but rather as another friend. “He gave me a lot of confidence.not like suddenly as a man, but as friends,” he said.
After that, in 2007 when Coronel participated in the Coffee and Guayaba festival contest, where he met again with Joaquin Guzman. Emma won that edition of the beauty contest, which sparked several rumors that indicate that “El Chapo” he had pulled a few strings to ensure his lover’s victory.
However, his daughters’ wife denied it repeatedly. “I won with many votes and that’s when there was a scandal that they were already implicating him in my lifeEmma pointed out.
HOW DID “EL CHAPO” GUZMÁN FALL IN LOVE WITH EMMA CORONEL?
In the interview with Anabel Hernandez, Emma broke the silence about her courtship and marriage to Guzmán Loera. “How did she win me over? Several times I went home -because her father worked for the boss, currently his father-in-law is also in jail-, I think what conquered me about him was his way of speaking, his way of treating me, he did not bring me great gifts, nor great things, of course not, but he earns things by his way of being, of acting, “he assured.
“He does not distinguish himself from other people, because he is like any other person (…) he acts like any normal person, he is kind, he greets everyone, talks, sits wherever, eats whatever, take whatever, he is a human being like anyone else (…) He is a very expressive man, very affectionate, very kind, very attentive,” he explained.
A photo from when he had just turned 18 (Photo: Infobae México)
The wedding between Loera and Emma took place on July 2, 2007, the same day the young woman came of age. The link was based on town of La Angosturamunicipality of Canelas, in the Sierra de Durango. And although it was said that various personalities from Aztec politics and famous music bands attended, the Coronel herself flatly denied those facts.
Their marriage has two children together: two girls, Emalí and María Joaquina.
HOW DID THE ARREST OF EMMA CORONEL, WIFE OF “EL CHAPO” GUZMÁN, OCCUR?
Far from going down in history as the woman who did not know or was involved in her husband’s criminal “work”, the evidence pointed in another direction. In 2021, Emma Coronel was arrested at the Dulles, Virginia airport. for drug traffickingas reported by the United States Department of State.
And on November 30 of that same year, she was sentenced by a court in Washington. three years in jail for drug trafficking and money laundering linked with the Sinaloa cartelafter pleading guilty to collaborating with “El Chapo”.
In an interview for Infobae Mexico, Mariel Colon Mirowho leads the defense of Emma Colonel With Jeffrey Lichtmann, mentioned that he noticed his client calm. “Every decision she makes, like any other mother, was thinking about herself and her daughters.”, assured the lawyer in a telephone interview.
Colonel’s departure is estimated for on September 13, 2023; but like other people deprived of his liberty, he has the right to leave when he has completed 85 percent of his sentence, so he could leave prison between the months of May or June of this year.
Emma with her two daughters and her mother, before being imprisoned (Photo: who.com)
