El Chapo's Wife Says in Interview She Fears for His Life: 'They Want to Make Him Pay' CNN Wire
go to original February 23, 2016

The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman has given her first television interview. (WWLP-22News)

The wife of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman says she fears for her husband’s life and that the Mexican government is using harsh conditions to “get even” with the drug lord because his escapes made them look bad.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, a former beauty queen who holds both U.S. and Mexican citizenship, made the comments to Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo in an interview on Sunday. Coronel and Guzman have been married since 2008. They have two children together, twin daughters born in Lancaster, California, in August 2011.

Coronel said she fears for her husband’s life while he is at Altiplano, the maximum security prison where he is currently held and from which he made his brazen escape in July 2015.

“They want to make him pay for his escape,” Coronel said. “They say that they are not punishing him. Of course they are. They are there with him, watching him in his cell. They don’t let him sleep. He has no privacy, not even to go to the restroom.”

In the interview, Coronel said Guzman is guarded by dogs and moved constantly. “Of course I am afraid for his life,” she said, adding that she has filed a complaint regarding her husband’s confinement with Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission.

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