“I consider myself a normal woman”: when Emma Coronel, wife of Chapo Guzmán, appeared on a controversial reality TV show

In the afternoon of Monday, February 22, the news of the arrest of Emma Coronel, the wife of drug trafficker sentenced to life imprisonment, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, was published. “El Chapo”. At Dulles Airport, Va. And in the middle of a process in which he is accused of participating ina conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana, the 31-year-old woman was arrested, according to the US State Department.

The statement also states that Coronel “Conspired with others to help Guzmán in his escape from the Altiplano on July 11, 2015, a prison located in Almoloya de Juárez, Mexico. After Guzmán was arrested again in Mexico in January 2016. “The former beauty queen is scheduled to have her first appearance on Tuesday, via video conference, in federal court in the District of Columbia.

Laying a low profile in the early years of his union with the former Sinaloa cartel leader, Emma Coronel gained popularity for her participation in the lawsuit her husband faced in 2019, where the resolution blamed her and sentenced him in February of the same year to serve his sentence in ADX Force prison, a court process that has been described as “the trial of the century” where the woman’s testimony gained great importance.

Since then, her profile has become in the media and it is in social networks that the former beauty queen and mother of twins María Joaquina and Emalí Guadalupe Guzmán – who procreated alongside the former drug dealer from Sinalo – have also found a niche of popularity, as over the months it has become a influence on the Instagram account where he sporadically shows his lifestyle and has thousands of followers.

The start of his media projection also happened with his participation in the Cartel Crew reality show, chain VH1, in November 2019. In the show which depicts the lives of characters familiarly linked to the world of organized crime, the model and mother of two daughters of “El Chapo” He said he wanted to lead a normal life away from court processes and the violence that surrounds the world of drug trafficking.

During your speech, Colonel Aispuro assured some of his fellow cast members that most of the time he was trying to be positive and not to become addicted or regret what has already happened, in relation to the violent world of drugs and the escape from justice.

Dressed in white and with hair a shade lighter than the usual dark brown she wore during the trial of her husband, the Colonel, in Dialogue with Michel Blanco, son of Colombian drug trafficker Griselda Blanco, complained about the way people treat her: “They judge us. without knowing each other… it’s hard because sometimes you want to do what you see everyone around you doing ”.

We are normal, I consider myself a normal woman, and it happens to me a lot that people judge me without knowing me

During an outdoor conference, in which she never takes off her sunglasses, the woman who on her social networks showed the products that several brands offer her in her facet of influence, noted that she considers herself a normal woman, “but as soon as they start attacking you, then you say,” Well, I can’t do that. “

Before the screening of the episode where Coronel appeared, several voices asked the channel to cancel its participation and sparked a movement in social networks through which netizens called for boycotting the channel because of their “lack of of sensitivity “to the situation that Mexico suffers today due to the violence unleashed by drug cartels, including the Sinaloa cartels, founded by Coronel Aispuro’s husband.

“It is an unhealthy and terrible decision on the part of VH1 to have his wife, Emma Coronel, in his reality show Cartel crew. There is a humanitarian catastrophe in Mexico due to the violence of the cartel. this is not one reality show glamour. Where are the images of the mass graves? “, Denounced the journalist specializing in drug trafficking Ioan Grillo.

However, the episode eventually aired on the show which documents the daily lives of relatives of drug traffickers and ex-detainees who, although in the past have had ties to drug cartels, today . They are fighting for a new life away from the world of crime.

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