Emma Coronel Aispuro

Emma Coronel Aispuro (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈema koɾoˈneǀ aisˈpuɾo]; born July 3, 1989, near San Francisco, California, United States) American-born former teenage beauty queen and the wife of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

Early life

Emma Coronel Aispuro was born in the United States[1] to Inés Coronel Barreras, a cattle rancher[2] and Sinaloa drug lord, and Blanca Estela Aispuro Aispuro. She grew up in La Angostura, a remote village in the state of Durango.[3]

Career

Pageantry

In 2006, after meeting Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán for the first time, Emma Coronel Aispuro put her name in contention for the following year's local Coffee and Guava Festival in Canelas, Durango.[3] Each contestant had to throw a party in honor of their candidacy and Emma's took place on Three Kings Day (January 6) in 2007. The day of Emma's party, El Chapo flooded the town with hundreds of armed men and publicly announced his intentions to marry her. That year she was voted the local Coffee and Guava Queen over four other contestants. On coronation day, El Chapo appeared with three bands to celebrate Coronel's crowning. Her reign as Coffee and Guava Queen ended with her wedding to El Chapo. The crown was then passed down to the first runner up.

Personal life and family

Emma Coronel met El Chapo in 2006 at a party that her father organized. Officially a cattle rancher in La Angostura, Inés Coronel Barreras is said to have cultivated marijuana and opium poppies. Barreras is related to Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel Villareal, a former Sinaloa Cartel Chief who was killed in a shootout with Mexican Security forces in 2010. Emma’s father was sanctioned[4] by the United States Department of the Treasury under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation for coordinating drug trafficking operations for Guzman. Emma Coronel’s brother, Inés Omar Coronel Aispuro, was also arrested at the same time as her father.

Marriage

On July 2, 2007 El Chapo and Emma Coronel Aispuro married. Only a few guests attended and the ceremony was surrounded by armed security guards."I would say what won me over was his way of talking, how he treated me, the way we began to get along -- first as friends and from that came everything else," Coronel said. "He tends to win over people by his manner of being, of acting, the way he treats people in general."[5] - Emma Coronel Aispuro during her 2016 Telemundo Special

Children

In the summer of 2012, Coronel traveled[3] to Lancaster (north of Los Angeles) to give birth to twins at Antelope Valley Hospital, thus American citizens by Jus soli like their mother, as well as by Jus sanguinis, having been born of an American mother. The twins were born around 3:50 pm. Their father's name was left blank on the birth certificate because there was a $5 million bounty[3] for him at the time.

Media appearances

On January 8, 2016, Coronel gave her first media interview.[6] The exclusive Telemundo interview, conducted by Anabel Hernández, a Fellow of the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism's Investigative Reporting Program,[7] was titled La Reina de El Chapo ("The Queen of El Chapo"). During this interview she argued[5] that the life of her husband was in danger in prison and she begged for justice on his behalf.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "6 Facts You Didn't Know About El Chapo's Beauty Queen Wife". www.latina.com. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ "PHOTOS: Emma Coronel Guzman- Joaquin El Chapo Guzman's Wife (Bio, Wiki)". DailyEntertainmentNews.com. February 24, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Daly, Michael (February 26, 2014). "Drug Cartel Beauty Queens Face an Ugly End". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Treasury Targets Leading Figures of Sinaloa Cartel". www.treasury.gov. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  5. 1 2 http://search.proquest.com/docview/1767266442 (subscription required)
  6. ↑ "La entrevista de Emma Coronel con Telemundo - Proceso". Proceso (in Spanish). February 23, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ Hernández, Anabel (February 21, 2016). "Murder, torture, drugs: Cartel kingpin's wife says that's not the 'El Chapo' she knows". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
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