is a Cuban and Mexican-American attorney who lives in Pacific Beach.
Cuba in the 1950s was one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America. It had a thriving economy and successful populace. The burgeoning middle class cultivated passion within young Cubans to flourish in their chosen profession, celebrate their art, share emerging ideas freely and advance in society.
My grandparents were the generation that drove the island’s prosperity. Grandpa Joaquin Otero was the treasurer of General Motors in Latin America and started the first natural gas plant in Havana with his brother-in-law, Santiago. Grandma Diana Linares Otero was a journalist. They had a charming romance; Joaquin saw Diana at her brother’s hardware store and thought to himself, “I am going to marry her.” He was captivating, she was classy, and they fell in love with each other’s intelligence and ambition. They eventually married and had my aunt, Maria, and my father, Joaquin Jr., and were excited for w
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Emma Coronel, 31, was detained at Dulles Airport in Virginia on Monday
It s unclear where she had flown from or how prosecutors got her turn herself in
Coronel is accused of drug trafficking between 2014 and 2017
She s also accused of helping her husband Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, 63, of escaping from prison in Mexico in 2015
Prosecutors say she also plotted to get him out of prison in 2016, after he was recaptured but before he was extradited to the US
That plot failed, despite Coronel allegedly offering $2million to the head of Mexico s prison service and $1million to someone else to get him out of prison
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