04/06/2021 | El Chapo Trial: Emma Coronel Aispuro: The rise and fall of a drug kingpinâs wife
Tara McKelvey
Emma Coronel Aispuro had a glamorous life in New York, enjoying the benefits of her marriage to drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka El Chapo. Then she was arrested, and thrown in a Virginia jail. What happened to the queen of the drug-cartel world?.
The
windows of the jailhouse, the William Truesdale Adult Detention Center in
Alexandria, are rectangular slats, cut lengthwise into red brick and it s where
Emma Coronel Aispuro is held in solitary confinement, in a tiny cell.
Inside,
says her lawyer Mariel Colón Miro, she reads novels, romantic ones,