I fear for my husband’s life in jail, wife of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman says

The ex-beauty queen wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has blasted the Mexican government in a TV interview, claiming that they turned her loving husband into the world’s most wanted criminal. Emma Coronel told the US Spanish-language Telemundo that Guzman is an intelligent and affectionate man, and that she had no proof that he was in the drug trade. “The Mexican government made sure to portray Joaquin Guzman as the world’s most wanted kingpin – that doesn’t mean that he turned into the world’s most wanted kingpin,” said Coronel, 26.

It seems very unjust to be saying such outrageous things about him.

Emma Coronel

Coronel, the mother of Guzman’s US-born twin girls, added: “I have no knowledge that he trafficked in drugs." El Chapo was recaptured on January 8, six months after he tunneled his way out of a maximum security prison. He was returned to the same prison he escaped from, the Altiplano, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Mexico City. Guzman and Coronel were reportedly married in 2007 in the northern state of Durango, when she was 18 years old. Coronel said she feared for her 61- year-old husband’s life, saying that he’s being mistreated in prison as payback for embarrassing the government by escaping last year.

They don’t let him sleep, he has no privacy to go to the bathroom, they don’t even let him go walk in the patio.

Mrs 'El Chapo’

El Chapo