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Usa, wife of “El Chapo”, the king of Mexican drug trafficking, arrested – Corriere.it

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman was arrested yesterday, Monday, February 21, at an airport in Virginia on charges of international drug trafficking. The news was reported by the Justice Department, which detailed how she helped plan her husband’s daring escape from a Mexican prison. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, who has dual citizenship of the United States and Mexico, was arrested at Dulles International Airport, Washington, and is expected to appear today in federal court in the US capital. accused of being part of a network of drug traffickers dedicated to the export of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana to the United States. The Justice Department also accuses her of helping her husband escape from a Mexican prison in 2015 and of participating in planning a second prison break before Guzman was extradited to the United States in January 2017.

Aispuro was taken into custody and is currently unclear if you have a lawyer who can comment on the allegations that have been made against you. Formerly powerful leader of the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, Guzman escaped through a shower entrance to his cell in a thousand-kilometer (1.6-kilometer) lighted tunnel on a motorcycle on rails. The organization of the escape, in which Aispuro played a key role, was planned down to the smallest detail, prosecutors say. Court documents accuse Coronel Aispuro of working with Guzman’s children and a witness, who is now collaborating with the US government, to organize the construction of the underground tunnel that Guzman used to escape from the Altiplano prison in Mexico. to prevent him from being extradited to the US.


The plan included the purchase of a nearby plot of land to the prison, firearms, an armored truck and a contraband GPS so that Aispuro and his accomplices could locate the exact location of “El Chapo” so as to build the tunnel with an entry point accessible to him, report court documents. Guzman was sentenced to life in prison in 2019. The Sinaloa cartel that headed him was responsible for smuggling huge quantities of cocaine and other drugs into the United States during his 25-year reign, prosecutors have said in recent documents judicial. They also said that his army of assassins was ordered to kidnap, torture and kill anyone who got in his way.

Coronel Aispuro, crowned beauty queen in 2007 thanks to the influence of El Chapo, witnessed regularly at Guzman’s trial, even when testimonies cast her in a bad light. The two, separated by an age difference of 30 years, have been together since at least 2007 and have twin daughters, born in 2011. Aispuro’s father, Ines Coronel Barreras, was arrested in 2013 with one of his sons and several other men. in a warehouse with hundreds of pounds of marijuana across the Douglas, Arizona border. Months earlier, the US Treasury had announced financial sanctions against Coronel Barreras for his alleged drug trafficking. After Guzman was arrested again following his escape, Coronel Aispuro lobbied the Mexican government to improve her husband’s prison conditions. And after he was convicted in 2019, he moved to launch a clothing line in his name.


February 23, 2021 (change February 23, 2021 | 02:02)

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