Emma Coronel and “El Chapo” Guzmán: a love story between drug traffickers and beauty pageants

It’s an atypical love story: They met while she was still a minor and ended up marrying the most powerful and wanted drug dealer in the world. Now that she pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and management of companies linked to the Sinaloa cartel, the uncertainty as to his sentence was left open.

July 2, 2007 beauty queen Emma Coronel, recognized for having won the scepter at the Café et de la Guave festival, was 18 years old and at the same time she married Joaquin El Chapo Guzmán Loera, founder of the Sinaloa cartel.

The wedding took place in the town of La Angostura, municipality of Canelas, in the Sierra de Durango.

Twelve years later, Emma will write to him a message of love to the boss, who was facing a trial in court in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Through her Instagram account, in early 2019, the former beauty queen published a photograph of the court in which she had been a little over three months took place the trial of the century against one of the most important drug lords in Mexico, El Chapo.

The now 31-year-old man explained that after three months of hearing, reaffirmed the image she has of her 63-year-old husband.

“Everything that was said in the trial about Joaquín, good and bad, for me does not change the way I think about him, because I have known him and shared with him for years and these years make him more than clear who he is and no one changes his mind Excellent father, friend, brother, son, partner I’m talking about years of living with him. They can’t sell me another version of Joaquín And even though we haven’t had contact for a long time, my husband knows how much I love him and always counted counted and will count on me», He wrote to conclude his presence.

Emma Coronel has repeatedly claimed that she is ignorant of all illegal aspects of her husband’s work, which is why she was not at the center of investigations that Mexican authorities like the security agencies of the United States. It was dissociated from any relation with the activities of Guzmán Loera.

On the wedding day, in 2007, various chronicles from the time reported that the bond had developed in the midst of an impressive security operation and prominent politicians had even attended.

Some media have assured that it had been carried out a lavish narco-style party, where there had been a waste of alcohol, food and continuous music.

But the review Treat detailed that, On the wedding day, the residents of Guzmán Loera surrounded the village where the bond would take place and only the parents of the bride and their relatives were present. El Chapo, like Ignacio Coronel, The crystal king and uncle of the bride, and the former deputy prosecutor of the government of Sinaloa, Alfredo Higuera Bernal. The judge and the priest were taken away by the drug dealer from Sinaloa.

Ismael would have attended the party May Zambada, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, Blue, and the Beltrán Leyva brothers: Marcos Arturo, The Beards, Alfredo, The Mochomo, and Hector, El H, according to journalist Anabel Hernández specializing in drug trafficking.

In an interview for the American channel Telemundo in 2019, Colonel Aispuro posted more details at the link: “I heard I don’t know how many people there were, officials, I don’t know… that’s not true, it was just my family, the people at the ranch.” There were there not politicians? “No, I have never seen him (Guzmán Loera) with a politician.”

clarified that “It was something very small, with a pure family, there weren’t the big bands they say, nothing like it.” In order to El Chapo It was her third marriage, but unlike previous ones, in this there was no honeymoon. According to the former beauty queen, They just went to a ranch, and almost immediately he moved to Culiacán, Sinaloa, where he began to study communication.

The inhabitants cited by the magazine Treat they pointed out that, after one day of the link, The Angostura was searched by the military, but the couple were already far from it. A few days after the wedding, the inhabitants of Canelas saw a plane fly over the area. They think it was a plane of rival drug dealers.

Despite the love story Emma Coronel has told on different occasions, the legitimacy of marriage has been called into question. The last date of 2018, when Alejandrina Gisselle Guzmán, daughter of the drug trafficker’s first marriage, assured that the union with the former beauty queen was illegitimate, since Guzmán Loera was still married to her mother.

The daughter of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel He indicated that the only wife is his mother and showed a marriage certificate: María Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, whom he married on August 2, 1977.

“This document shows that Joaquín Guzmán’s only wife is my mother and Emma Coronel is just a concubine“, Wrote Gisselle Guzmán Salazar on her social networks.

In an unreleased video, released in February this year, which was recorded during Guzmán Loera’s return to the Altiplano maximum security prison after escaping through a tunnel, the drug dealer also recognizes Alejandrina Salazar as his wife.

The video, from 2016, corresponds to the routine interrogation which is carried out on all the detainees upon their arrival in this prison and which essentially corresponds to their general data: name, age, date of birth, education, marital status, names of parents, clothing sizes and occupation, among others.

Guzmán Loera then said he was 58, a farmer, practicing the Catholic religion, wearing number 7 and having completed primary school.

When you are asked for your marital status, the founder of the Sinaloa cartel said he was married to his first wife, Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, whom he married in 1977 and had four children: Archivaldo Iván, Jesús Alfredo, Alejandrina Giselle and César Guzmán Salazar.

Of former beauty queen Emma Coronel, with whom he has two daughters, he said he lived with her, but did not recognize her as his wife. When the person in charge of the interrogation asks you his wife’s name, the drug trafficker’s answer is “Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, but the one I live with is with Emma Coronel Aispuro.”

In November of this year, Emma Coronelle He resumed his social media activity with a change of look: going from a dark brown color with blonde rays to a completely new shade of blonde. The change came as a model for a beauty product campaign.

The colonel had gone through a discreet moment of rest during the period of the pandemic caused by COVID-19. He hasn’t made any major changes to his Instagram profile: With only four photos, he gathered nearly 403,000 subscribers.

The last wife of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman he insists that he has a normal life; however, their social networks display a catalog of luxury goods.

The former Santa Clara-born beauty queen has gone public with her lifestyle and fondness for luxury cars. Lamborghini and Ferrari are among the handful of images available on the @_emmacoronel_ Instagram account, which the capo woman shamelessly uses to show off a life of excess and ostentation.

On behalf of the also called Kardashian from Sinaloa you can find self-portraits, jewelry photographs and trips that obey the need to impart power. The images of the last wife of El Chapo impacted Mexican society, who speculate that Emma enjoyed the loot generated over the thirty years her husband devoted himself to forging in front of the Sinaloa Cartel.

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