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The wife of the Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has been arrested in the USA.
Emma Coronel Aispuro was arrested on Monday at Washington Dulles Airport in Virginia state on allegations of international drug trafficking, the US Department of Justice announced.
The 31-year-old has both a Mexican and an American passport.
She is due to appear in a federal court in Washington on Tuesday.
She is charged with helping her husband escape from a Mexican prison in 2015.
After he went back to the police network, his wife is said to have been involved in "planning another prison break" before Guzmán was extradited to the United States in January 2017, the Justice Department said.
The drug lord was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019.
His Sinaloa cartel was responsible for smuggling mountains of cocaine and other drugs into the United States during its 25-year rule, according to recent prosecutorial records.
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According to this, Guzmán's "army" had orders to kidnap, torture and murder any person who stood in the way of the gang.
Coronel Aispuro was also accused of being involved in a plot to smuggle cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana into the US, it said.