Former beauty queen and powerful drug dealer: it was the love story between Emma Coronel and “El Chapo” Guzmán

It’s an atypical love story: They met while she was still underage and ended up marrying the most powerful and wanted drug dealer in the world.

July 2, 2007 beauty queen Emma Coronel, recognized for winning the scepter at the Coffee and Guava Festival, was 18 and at the same time she married Joaquín 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 would write to him a love message 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 posted a photo of the court in which she had a little more than three months was carried out the test of the century against one of Mexico’s most important drug lords, El Chapo.

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

“Everything that was said during the trial about Joaquín, good and bad, for me does not change the way I think about him, since I have known him and that I have shared with him for years and that these years show it to me more than clearly. the person he is and no one changes their mind. Excellent father, friend, brother, son, partner. I’m talking about years of life 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 meHe wrote to conclude his presence.

Emma Coronel has repeatedly stated 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 ended up carrying out. 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 political figures had even attended.

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

But the magazine Treat detailed this, On the wedding day, the people of Guzmán Loera surrounded the hamlet where the bond would take place and only the parents of the bride and people very close to 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 Can Zambada, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, Blue, and the Beltrán Leyva brothers: Marcos Arturo, Beard, 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 that 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.” “Weren’t there politicians? “No, I never saw 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, none of that.” For El Chapo It was her third marriage, but unlike previous ones, in this there was no honeymoon. According to the former beauty queen, They simply went to a ranch, and almost immediately he moved to Culiacán, Sinaloa, where he began to study communication.

Locals cited by the magazine Treat they pointed out that, after a day of bonding, The Angostura was searched by soldiers, but the couple were already very 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 was in 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 his mother.

The daughter of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel He indicated that the only wife was his mother and presented 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 unpublished video, released in February this year, which was recorded when Guzmán Loera reentered 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, civil status, names of parents, clothing sizes and occupation, among others.

Next, Guzmán Loera 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 didn’t 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 Colonel He returned to 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 quiet moment of rest during the pandemic period 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 weakness for luxury cars. Lamborghini and Ferrari are among the handful of images available on the @_emmacoronel_ Instagram account, which the boss’s wife shamelessly uses to show off a life of excess and ostentation.

Due to 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 had an impact on Mexican society, which speculates 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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