That was "too much", said Emma Coronel about the trial against "El Chapo"

Emma Coronel, Joaquín's wife "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, founder of the Sinaloa cartel, claimed to be a husband It's not like they want to present it to the court.

In an interview published Wednesday by the newspaper The New York Times, the 29-year-old woman said that she admires her as a human being and does not recognize the portrait that was made of him in court.

"I do not know my husband as the person they're trying to show. I admire him as a human being that I met and with whom I got married. "said the colonel.

She revealed to the paper that the lawsuit against her husband had been "too much" because she hated "the drama". He said that the situation "is difficult and cumbersome (…) However, I have faith and I am convinced that God it only puts the obstacles we can overcome, and I hope it will be like that. "

"I had to be separated from my daughters to accompany her, now that I am the only person in his family who can be in New York with him. " He talked about his last weeks in the city, where he led a silent routine.

El Chapo, 64, was extradited to the United States in January 2017 and has been tried in recent weeks by a federal court in New York, in the presence of 56 witnesses, including former partners of the alleged capo, drug officers or experts. .

One of the partners, the drug dealer Dámaso López, Coronel incriminated in the Chapo escape from the Altiplano prison (Mexico) in 2015 and he said that she had instructed him and that his brother had also participated in the robbery.

The California-born girl is married at age 18 with Guzmán Loera, who was then 52 years old. Four years later, her twins, María Joaquina and Emalí Guadalupe, were born in the United States.