Wife of Mexican drug lord "El Chapo" arrested in Washington
Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquin Guzman, known as "El Chapo", as she exits the Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, February 5, 2019. REUTERS - JEENAH MOON
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The wife of Mexican drug lord "El Chapo" was arrested Monday at Washington International Airport.
Emma Coronel Aispuro is accused, among other things, of helping her husband run his drug empire.
She is due to appear this Tuesday before a federal judge.
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It had been two years since the US federal police, the FBI, investigated the former beauty queen.
During her husband's trial in 2019, evidence emerged showing her involvement in the vast drug trafficking of her husband's Mexican cartel, the Sinalao.
In particular, she transferred messages to him in order to organize the transport by boat of cocaine and other illegal substances.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, who married Joquim Guzman, alias "El Chapo", at the age of 17, is also accused of helping her husband
escape from a Mexican prison
in 2015 by dramatically.
Why did you wait two years before arresting Emma Coronel Aispuro?
For the moment, the American authorities have not given an explanation.
According to her lawyer, she must plead not guilty.
A defense strategy that she has already used during the
trial of "El Chapo" in 2019
.
She then explained that she knew nothing about the drug empire that her husband was running.
It was then that she also saw him for the last time.
Justice had banned all contact between the former cartel leader and his wife.
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