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Emma Coronel, the wife of Chapo Guzmán, was sentenced to 36 months in prison
The United States justice sentenced Emma Coronel, the wife of former Mexican Joaquín Guzmán, better known as “El Chapo,” the leader of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, to three years in prison.
The sentence was made known by the resolution issued by the Washington DC court, issued by Judge Rudolph Contreras, who imposed a sentence less than 4 years requested by the prosecution.
This reduction in the sentence, according to the judge, is due to the fact that Coronel was a teenager when she married Guzmán.
In this process, a 32-year-old Colonel had pleaded guilty in June. Among the charges alleged against him is the conspiracy to traffic drugs, launder money, and participate in deals with the Sinaloa Cartel.
In the sentence, the judge ordered that Emma Coronel serve 4 more years of supervised release, and the payment of a fine of 1.5 million dollars. He also pointed out that the 9 months she had been held will be deducted from her sentence.
Emma Coronel's request
During the sentencing, Coronel asked the judge that the nine-year-old twins he had with "El Chapo" not grow up without their mother, after the life sentence that the former is serving.
"Today the suffering that I have caused to my family hurts me a lot," She also added that she was sorry for everything she had caused.
To which the judge replied: "I hope you raise your twins in a different environment than they have experienced to date. Good luck"
The love story of Emma Coronel and "El Chapo"
Emma Coronel's story is very similar to that of other women who are related to drug trafficking. Between love, money and drugs, they live closely everything that represents the dark world of the mafia.
They met when she was still a teenager, the 18-year-old was crowned as a beauty queen at the Coffee and Guava Festival, and at the same time she married Joaquín "El Chapo".
A wedding that, according to some media, had an extensive security operation, and included the participation of some important politicians at the time. To which the ex-queen has always declared that it was a simple wedding, without many guests.
Twelve years later, he comes out with a message of love that he sends to Chapo; while he was facing trial in the court of Brooklyn, in New York.
On repeated occasions, Emma mentioned that she was unaware of the illicit life her husband led; in this way she ceased to be the center of the investigations, in relation to her husband, but only for a time.
At first Emma had a normal life, from Los Angeles to Sinaloa. He created front businesses, which were used to launder money. He moved around the farm and bought properties, and then rented them.
All this he did in a low profile, Coronel began to have a more public life after he studied Social Communication at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa.
Later, a public image was invented as an influencer. It was there that his image began to be noise to the authorities.
Coronel had already been arrested on February 22 of this year, at Dulles International Airport.
