El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro poised to rat out Democrat NAZI run cartel: sources

[Bradley K. Sherman]

Emma Coronel Aispuro went back to being a brunette for her mug
shot last week.

The glamorous beauty-queen wife of Mexico’s most notorious drug
trafficker had last appeared in public as a blonde, her hair
cascading down her bareback in a glamorous, white-lace wedding
dress that she modeled for Mexican designer Benito Santos on
Instagram. In another photo, she models a hip-hugging, sparkly
purple gown.

But as she prepares to rat out high-ranking members of the
Sinaloa cartel, including her own stepsons, Coronel Aispuro was
forced into a more sober look in drab prison greens, her pouty
lips free of red lipstick.

“She’s definitely cooperating,” a federal law enforcement source
told The Post, adding that the wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
is a likely candidate for witness protection.

“Emma wants to get far away from the violence, and has always
wanted to live in the US,” said the source. She was born in
California and has dual US/Mexican citizenship.

Coronel Aispuro, 31, turned herself into authorities in
Washington earlier this week and faces more than 10 years in
prison if convicted on drug-trafficking charges. She is also
accused of helping Guzman, 63, escape from a maximum-security
Mexican prison in 2015, and helping to plan another escape
before he was extradited to the US in 2017, according to court
papers.

The leggy brunette, fond of flashy designer clothes, was a
fixture at her husband’s trial in Brooklyn federal court in
2019. At the time, The Post exclusively reported that she was
under federal investigation for helping to run the cartel that
is now spearheaded, the source said, by stepsons Ovidio Guzman
Lopez, 30, Ivan Archivaldo Guzman, 37, Jesus Alfredo Guzman
Salazar, 34, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, whose age is unknown.

Along the way, the former journalism student and aspiring model
has amassed nearly 600,000 Instagram followers. She posts
glamorous photographs of herself in low-cut blouses and
chandelier diamond earrings, and shared Instagram stories about
her luxe vacation in Venice shortly after Guzman was sentenced
to life at a maximum-security Colorado federal prison in July
2019. There were videos of gondola rides and dinners overlooking
the canals. One video showed two glasses of white wine at an
outdoor restaurant, but it wasn’t clear whether she was on a
date.

Previous photos uploaded to her social media sites during her
husband’s trial showed the brunette in skimpy bikinis on
windswept beaches. Others featured her in skinny jeans paired
with stilettos and Prada handbags, standing amid a fleet of high-
end sports cars. Those photographs and the video stories have
since been taken down.

Following the trial, Coronel Aispuro also registered the “El
Chapo Guzman” trademark to hawk a line of clothing, cell phone
cases and hats, according to public records.

Although it’s unclear if the commercial venture went forward,
Coronel Aispuro did retain many of her fans. Shortly after news
of her arrest on Monday, many of those social-media followers
left heart emojis next to photographs of Coronel Aispuro in a
tight black leather jacket, a golden crown on her head, and
enhanced red lips.

Her followers expressed shock that “la Reinita” — the little
queen — who also managed a guest appearance on VH1’s “Cartel
Crew” two years ago, had been arrested. “Is it true that Emma is
in jail?” asked one of her Instagram followers. “Free the
queen,” wrote another.

Coronel Aispuro, the mother of 9-year-old twin girls Emali
Guadalupe and Maria Joaquina, is being represented by a team of
lawyers led by Manhattan attorney Jeffrey Lichtman, who also
defended her husband.

“She already had her defense attorney lined up before she got on
a plane to turn herself in,” the source told The Post. “Her
number one priority is to protect her kids and remain in the US.”

She has long denied any knowledge of her husband’s drug
business. But an FBI agent who debriefed more than 100 members
of the Sinaloa cartel said in court papers that “Coronel was
aware of multi-ton cocaine shipments, multi-kilo heroin
production, multi-ton marijuana shipments and ton-quantity
methamphetamine shipments.” After visits to her husband in
Mexican prisons, she relayed messages to his trusted deputies,
court papers say.

During Guzman’s trial in Brooklyn, Damaso Lopez Nunez, the drug
lord’s longtime lieutenant, testified that El Chapo contacted
him soon after his capture by Mexican Marines in February 2014.
Lopez said his boss asked him to “meet with the mother of the
twins,” referring to Coronel.

Coronel Aispuro was born on July 1989 near San Francisco, but
grew up in a remote area of northwest Mexico surrounded by pine
forests. Her father, Ines Coronel Barrera, was a cattle rancher
in the region and a feared drug lord who worked for Guzman. The
daughter met Guzman when she was still a teenager, and a
contestant in a beauty pageant during the Coffee and Guava
Festival in the village of Canelas in 2007.

Guzman, then 50, fell for her on the spot, although the marriage
was widely seen as a way to solidify Ines Coronel Barreras’
position within Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel. Barreras was convicted
on weapons charges and marijuana trafficking in 2017, and is
currently serving a 10-year sentence in Mexico.

Since Guzman’s extradition to the US, the Sinaloa cartel has
been dominated by the eldest of his 15 children, known as “Los
Chapitos.” In 2019, their turf war with rival drug gang, Cartel
Jalisco Nueva Generacion, became particularly brutal, resulting
in more than 2,000 deaths. In October of that year, when Mexican
authorities captured Ovidio Guzman Lopez — known as El Raton or
“the mouse” — the threat of violence was deemed so high that
they let him go.

Lichtman refused comment when contacted by The Post.

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