The letter from “Chapo” which condemned the fate of Emma Coronel

Emma Coronel, wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was arrested on Monday at the international airport in Dulles, Virginia in the United States for her alleged participation in the international drug trafficking, the United States Department of Justice announced.

However, the former beauty queen is also accused of acting as alleged intermediary and messenger between Guzmán Loera, his children and partners in the illegal drug trade.

According to the report authenticated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), one of the pieces of evidence against him is a letter signed and written by “El Chapo” that Coronel had to deliver to the “Cleto”, suspected heroin trafficker in Durango, and where instructions were specified for the Sinaloa cartel operations.

“(…) You know who has the papers from this place. Send them to the twins, please. Mother of twins tell you something now my children. Be careful, buddy. She will explain. (…) Mother of twins will bring you all a message to see personally. “, it can be read in the memorandum of the ministry.

Addiction emphasizes that “The mother of twins” would refer to Emma Coronel, while “my children” to Iván, Alfredo, Ovidio and Joaquín Guzmán.

In addition, the brief indicates that the accused made several visits to Guzmán Loera in the Altiplano prison located in the State of Mexico, where he had been detained since the past. February 22, 2014 and from which he fled on July 11, 2015; event in which Coronel allegedly participated.

The document says that the accused gave instructions to Iván, Alfredo, Ovidio and Joaquín, issued by their father from prison, to carry out the escape through an underground tunnel, so as to avoid the extradition of the drug trafficker to the United States. States and ensure that it continues to control the activities of the Sinaloa cartel.

As part of the strategy, the acquisition of land and property near the prison where Guzmán resided was indicated, as well as the purchase of various firearms, an armored truck and a GPS watch to know when the inmate made the escape.

On the other hand, the woman also faces charges for allegedly collaborating in the second escape attempt, after the arrest of El Chapo Guzmán on January 8, 2016 in Los Mochis, Sonora and transferred again to the Altiplano prison. On this occasion, his extradition to the United States was also requested.

However, with the subsequent transfer of her husband to Ciudad Juárez, Coronel, along with other people, handled the return of the detainee to the Altiplano, where it was planned to organize another escape. According to the Ministry of Justice, the woman would have paid two million pesos to Mexican authorities to facilitate the transfer.

However, this deal was never achieved and ultimately for him January 19, 2019Joaquín Guzmán was transferred to the United States where he served a trial in which he was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he would serve in a high-security Colorado prison.

This Tuesday, Judge Robin Meriweather of the United States Court for the District of Columbia ruled preventive detention without bail to Emma Coronel; If she were found guilty, she would face a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, in addition to a fine of up to $ 10 million.

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