Emma Coronel Aispuro was once again brunette for her cup she fired last week.
The glamorous woman of the beauty queen of Mexico’s most famous drug trafficker had last appeared in public as a blonde, with her hair falling barefoot on her head in a glamorous white lace wedding dress she modeled for the Mexican designer Benito Santos on Instagram. In another photo, she models a purple dress that hugs her hips.
But as he prepares to ratify high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel, including his own stepchildren, Colonel Aispuro was forced to take a more sober look at the gloomy prison greens, his lips stuffed free of red lipstick.
“He’s definitely cooperating,” a federal law enforcement source told The Post, who said Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s wife is likely a candidate for witness protection.
“Emma wants to get away from violence and has always wanted to live in the US,” the source said. He was born in California and has dual American and Mexican citizenship.
Colonel Aispuro, 31, became an officer in Washington earlier this week and faces more than ten years in prison if convicted of drug trafficking charges. He is also accused of helping Guzman, 63, escape from a Mexican maximum security prison in 2015 and helping plan another escape before he was extradited to the United States in 2017, according to court papers.
The leg-brunette, a fan of showy designer clothes, was one of the targets of her husband’s trial in Brooklyn federal court in 2019. At the time, The Post reported exclusively that she was under federal investigation for having helped direct the cartel that is now at the head. source said, by stepchildren, 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 model aspirant has garnered nearly 600,000 Instagram followers. She posts glamorous photos of herself in cut-out blouses and spider diamond earrings, and shared Instagram stories about her luxury vacation in Venice shortly after Guzman was sentenced to life in prison in a Colorado maximum prison. security in July 2019. There were videos of gondola rides and dinners overlooking the canals. A video showed two glasses of white wine in an open-air restaurant, but it was unclear if he had an appointment.
Previous photos posted on her social media sites during her husband’s trial showed the brunette in sparse bikinis on wind-swept beaches. Others presented it in skinny jeans paired with Prada stilettos and handbags, amid a fleet of high-end sports cars. These photographs and video stories have since been removed.
After the trial, Colonel Aispuro also registered the trademark “El Chapo Guzman” to make a line of clothing, cell phone cases and hats, according to public records.
Although it is unclear whether the trading venture progressed, Colonel Aispuro retained many of his followers. Shortly after the news of his arrest on Monday, many of these social media followers left heart emojis alongside photographs of Colonel Aispuro wearing a tight black leather jacket, a gold crown on his head and red lips. improved.
Her fans expressed surprise that “the Queen”, the little queen, who also got a guest appearance on VH1’s “Cartel Crew” two years ago, had been arrested. “Is it true that Emma is in prison?” asked one of her Instagram followers. “Free the queen,” wrote another.
Colonel Aispuro, the mother of 9-year-old twins Emali Guadalupe and Maria Joaquina, is represented by a team of lawyers led by Manhattan lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman, who also defended her husband.
“He already had his defense attorney in line before boarding a plane to surrender,” the source told The Post. “His number one priority is to protect his children and stay in the United States.”
She has long denied any knowledge of her husband’s drug business. But an FBI agent who reported more than 100 members of the Sinaloa cartel said in court papers that “Colonel was aware of the multi-ton cocaine shipments, the multi-kilo heroin production, the shipments of multi-ton marijuana and methamphetamine shipments in tons ”. After visits to her husband in Mexican prisons, she relayed messages to her trusted deputies, court papers say.
During Guzman’s trial in Brooklyn, Damaso López Núñez, the longtime lieutenant of the drug trafficker, testified that El Chapo contacted him shortly after he was captured by Mexican Marines in February 2014. López said his boss told him ask her to “meet with the mother of the twins.” in reference to Colonel.
Colonel Aispuro was born in July 1989 near San Francisco, but grew up in a remote area of northwestern Mexico surrounded by pine forests. His father, Ines Colonel Barrera, was a rancher in the region and a dreaded drug lord who worked for Guzman. The daughter met Guzman when she was still a teenager and participated in a beauty pageant during the Coffee and Guava Festival in the village of Canelas in 2007.
Guzman, who was 50, fell in love with her, although the marriage was widely seen as a way to consolidate Colonel Barreras’ position as Ines within Guzman’s Suzoa cartel. Barreras was convicted of gun charges and marijuana trafficking in 2017 and is currently serving a ten-year sentence in Mexico.
Since Guzman’s extradition to the United States, the Sinaloa cartel has been dominated by the eldest of his 15 children, known as “Los Chapitos.” In 2019, its war against rival drug trafficking gang, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, became particularly brutal, causing 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 considered so high that they released him.
Lichtman declined to comment when contacted by The Post.