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(CNN Spanish) - The personal lineage of Joaquín el "Chapo" Guzmán is as extensive as his criminal enterprise. Although it is difficult to confirm the exact number of children, it is estimated that they would have had between 12 and 13 products of at least 3 marriages.
Guzmán's origin dates back to the mountains of Sinaloa, Mexico, in the town of La Tuna, a town punished by misery. It was there that he was born who was considered by the United States Government as one of the most powerful and violent drug traffickers in the world. Doubt persists in many aspects of Guzman's life, such as his date of birth: some reports point to December 25, 1954. Others, to April 4, 1957.
Son of María Consuelo Loera Pérez and Emilio Guzmán Bustillos, little is known about Guzmán's childhood. Security reports in both Mexico and the US They indicate that his father was engaged in the cultivation of opium and marijuana and that this was one of Guzman's first contacts with drug trafficking.
CNN spoke with Mónica Cano, who for a couple of months held meetings with Joaquín Guzmán in the Altiplano prison in Mexico, to build his psychological-criminal profile at the request of the government of that country. In these dialogues, Cano had the opportunity to know a more personal aspect of the drug trafficker. He tells that Guzmán began selling bread and oranges in the town near La Tuna that he obtained from a tree that was just outside his house. With the first sale, Guzman bought sandals for his brothers, who lived in extreme poverty. To the lack of resources, suspicions of abuse were added that, apparently, exerted his father, who also would have had problems of alcoholism. El Chapo assured Cano that he never wanted his children to experience the problems he suffered.
According to several experts on security issues, Guzmán always had a "weakness" for women. "He is a great seducer," María Idalia Gómez, a Mexican journalist with expertise in security and drug trafficking, told CNN. Chapo's first marriage would have been with María Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, born in July 1958. Three children were born from this link. Then came a second marriage with Griselda López Pérez born in August 1959. With her he would have had 4 children: among them, Ovid Guzmán López who is known as “El Ratón” or “Ratón Nuevo” of 29 years. He and his brother Joaquin were accused by the United States Department of Justice of conspiracy to distribute drugs in order to be sent to the United States.
Both are reported to have imported large shipments of marijuana, methamphetamine and cocaine into the American Union. This makes Ovid an important and active piece, along with his other brother, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, "El Chapito", inside the Sinaloa Cartel. As shown in the following diagram of the US Department of Treasury. Prepared in 2012.
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Iván Archivaldo, on the other hand, was arrested in 2005 in Mexico and charged with money laundering, but years later he was released when the evidence against him was dismissed. The United States government promoted a process against him in 2013 in the Southern District of California (see court document).
His brother Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, another of the sons of Chapo is on the list of the most wanted of the DEA for crimes related to drug trafficking.
The youngest daughters of El Chapo are 8-year-old twins born in the United States as a result of Guzman's union with Emma Coronel, his third wife. All three were present on a couple of occasions during the trial that faced El Chapo in New York and in which he was convicted of 10 charges, including being the leader of a criminal company continuing with a life sentence plus 30 years.
On the contrary, Alejandrina Gisselle, daughter of Guzmán, has tried to mark a line between her father and the illegal activities to which she dedicated herself. Recently he launched a clothing brand named "El Chapo 701". 701 is the position that his father occupied in the Forbes list of the richest in 2009.
About Emma Coronel, some versions of her alleged relationship with drug trafficking in Mexico have been written. During the Guzmán trial, she was pointed out by Dámaso López, alias “El Licenciado” - a witness from the Prosecutor's Office - as one of the coordinators of the escape of the Chapo del Penal del Altiplano in 2015. So far no evidence has been presented against him, nor does it have an open process, besides that she and her lawyers have dismissed the accusations. However, his father and father-in-law of Guzmás, Inés Coronel Barreras, as well as Inés Omar Coronel Aispuro, brother of Emma and brother-in-law of El Chapo, are arrested in Mexico accused of crimes against health, which is how drug trafficking is typified there.
Joaquín Guzmán's inheritance to his family was not translated in money or property, but in arrests and crimes. His desire to provide a better life for his children was a frustrated goal. Guzman's family is marked by rupture, separation and a father whom they can never see again. El Chapo purges his sentence at the ADX Supermax maximum security prison in Colorado, where the only ones allowed to see him are his lawyers and the twins, on some special occasion. That is the destiny marked for Guzmán and his family.
Chapo Guzmán