New York.- Emma Coronel, the wife of a drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Is dedicated to reading in a cell in which it remains closed about 22 hours a day.
Lawyer Mariel Colom, who is part of the defense team of colonelHe told AP that he has called for better confinement conditions for his client as prison staff only take Colonel out of the sky in the morning to go to an “indoor lounge” detention center in Alexandria, state of Virginia. He only spends a couple of hours in this living room, Columbus added.
“Their confinement conditions are not yet improving,” the lawyer said. “It’s closed most of the day.”
colonel, 31, was arrested in February at Dulles International Airport on the outskirts of Washington DC. The wife of “El Chapo”, Who is an American and Mexican citizen, is accused of participating in an illicit association to traffic cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin and marijuana. United States it accuses it in addition to to have been united to others to help Guzmán to escape of the prison of the Plateau, in Almoloya de Juárez, Mexico, in July of 2015.
colonel does not share cell with other prey, said Columbus, who did not answer questions about whether he often talks on the phone with his twin daughters with Guzmán.
“She only gets out of her cell when they take her out into the living room. Nothing more. Unfortunately they don’t offer, there aren’t, activities available so she can be distracted,” Columbus said. “The only thing he can do while inside his cell is read.”
Columbus added that he did not remember the title of the book colonel is reading.
colonel i Guzmán they married in 2007 when she was 18 and he was 50 and was one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world. colonel attending Guzmán’s long trial every day in Brooklyn, New York, in late 2018 and early 2019, during which he was the focus of the cameras every time he entered and left the building.
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