Emma Coronel Aispuro

Emma Coronel Aispuro (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈema koɾoˈneǀ aisˈpuɾo]; born July 3, 1989, near San Francisco, California, United States) is an American beauty queen and the wife of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

Emma Coronel Aispuro was born in the United States to Inés Coronel Barreras, a cattle rancher and Sinaloa drug lord, and Blanca Estela Aispuro Aispuro. She grew up in La Angostura, a remote village in the state of Durango.

In 2006, after meeting Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán for the first time, Emma Coronel Aispuro put her name in contention for the following year's local Coffee and Guava Festival in Canelas, Durango. Each contestant had to throw a party in honor of their candidacy and Emma's took place on Three Kings Day (January 6) in 2007. The day of Emma's party, El Chapo flooded the town with hundreds of armed men and publicly announced his intentions to marry her. That year she was voted the local Coffee and Guava Queen over four other contestants. On coronation day, El Chapo appeared with three bands to celebrate Coronel's crowning. Her reign as Coffee and Guava Queen ended with her wedding to El Chapo. The crown was then passed down to the first runner up.

Henry Schleiff, head of Discovery, is currently in talks with Coronel Aispuro's representatives about participating in a new show called "Stand by Your Con." The show will center around real life fugitives and their wives.

Emma Coronel met El Chapo in 2006 at a party that her father organized. Officially a cattle rancher in La Angostura, Inés Coronel Barreras is said to have cultivated marijuana and opium poppies. Barreras is related to Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel Villareal, a former Sinaloa Cartel Chief who was killed in a shootout with Mexican Security forces in 2010. Emma’s father was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation for coordinating drug trafficking operations for Guzman. Emma Coronel’s brother, Inés Omar Coronel Aispuro, was also arrested at the same time as her father.

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