The drug dealer’s wife Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Emma Coronel, He will be released from prison this Wednesday. The date of your Edition It was announced months in advance by US authorities.

Coronel served two years and four months in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering in a federal prison in Texas. She was then transferred to a Residential Return Management Center in Long Beach, California, to acclimate to his release. There, detainees can participate in reintegration programs into society.

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The woman, who was a beauty queen in her adolescence, served part of the sentence imposed on her by the judge November 2021. In June of that year, he had pleaded guilty to helping El Chapo Guzmán drug smuggling across the US-Mexico borderlike escape from the maximum security prison of Altiplano, in the state of Mexicothrough a sophisticated system that required excavating a tunnel from the cell that connected to the outside.

Emma Coronel, wife of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín ‘Chapo’ Guzmán. Photo: AFP

They dictated it to the colonel three years in prison and four years of supervised releasea relatively minimal sentence after the judge took into account her role as an accomplice of El Chapo and as the mother of two twin daughters.

Also considering that the woman did not play a leading role in the criminal operation of her husband, whom she met when she was 17 years old and whom she married when she was 18 years old, her sentence was reduced. She also showed remorse to the jury and asked to be allowed to raise her daughters.

“Good luck. I hope you raise your twin girls in a different environment than what you have experienced so far. Good luck,” the judge told him at the end of the hearing.

In the meantime, Guzman He is serving a life sentence in Florence Prison, Colorado. When he heard that his wife had been released, he requested that she and his daughters, now twelve years old, be allowed to visit him. (JO)