MEXICO CITY — The arrest on drug trafficking charges of Emma Coronel Aispuro, a former beauty queen and wife of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, follows a telenovela-style life that straddled hyper-violent Mexican cartels, fame and motherhood.
Coronel, 31, married young into infamy and had a front-row seat to Guzman’s high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with Mexican and US agents hunting him down.
A US-Mexican dual national, Coronel was arrested on Monday at Dulles International Airport and is due to appear in a US District of Columbia court on Tuesday charged with distributing cocaine, heroin and other drugs.
Coronel caught the attention of Guzman, who is more than …
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