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Two years after the conviction and life imprisonment of the Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, his criminal organization seems stronger than ever. This Tuesday it was revealed that his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, pleaded guilty to the accusations for helping her husband to run his multi-million dollar drug empire through the Sinaloa Cartel as well as helping him escape from a high security prison in Mexico .
A report prepared by the Drug Enforcement Administration of United States (DEA), published in March, notes that the Cartel de Sinaloa continues to be the largest criminal organization in Mexico and “maintains the broadest national influence” in United States.
The US authorities still hope to breathe a break from the war they have faced for more than 30 years with the cartel after the arrest in February at Dulles International Airport of Emma Coronel Aispuro , El Chapo’s wife and mother of his twin daughters.
Colonel, of 33 years, she was detained without bail for a criminal complaint that accuses her of conspiracy to distribute narcotics and to help “El Chapo” escape from a Mexican prison in 1999 . However, the complaint suggests that the federal interest in Coronel, who married ‘El Chapo’ when he was 19 years, could reveal great secrets of the criminal organization .
The complaint states that Emma Coronel “has knowledge of the operation of the drug trafficking industry and the scope of the drug trafficking of the Sinaloa Cartel. ”
US prosecutors affirm that the cartel is known to carry out assassinations and torture to protect its territory. Some of them believe that Coronel could help break that cycle of violence .
Mike Vigil, former chief of security for international operations at the DEA, said in an interview with CNBC that Coronel knows the drug trafficking routes, who they are leaders and what his dealings with the US authorities are also that “she knows where all the bodies are buried and can do a lot of damage to the Sinaloa cartel,” he said. Vigil.
A week ago the expert assured that Colonel could reach an agreement with the US authorities in the hope of protecting his daughters by giving that information .
Emma Coronel was indicted in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in March she waived her right to receive a preliminary hearing and this Tuesday it was reported or that he pleaded guilty to the charges against him .
Jeffrey Lichtman, Emma Coronel’s attorney, had advanced two weeks ago that your team would be working on a possible plea deal , however, the attorney ruled out that there is a possible cooperation of Coronel with the authorities because it would put life at risk of his client and his daughters.
Despite the DEA report, Lichtman confirmed to the Telemundo network that Coronel “It does not have as much information as the authorities believe and that idea is based on speculation” since El Chapo has been incarcerated for most of the time that the couple has been married.
He is Colonel is scheduled to appear in court in Washington on Thursday to admit his guilt. ad in the crimes he is charged with, according to the newspaper The New York Times.
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