Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín
El Chapo
Guzmán, is in quarantine due to the protocols to combat COVID-19 after her arrival at the minimum security prison in Texas 14 days ago, where she will serve the rest of her sentence.
In a conversation with Noticias Telemundo, Coronel's lawyer, Mariel Colón, spoke about the circumstances of her client's confinement, who
has not been able to see her two 10-year-old twin girls that she had with Guzmán Loera
.
["They call them 'spas': this is the prison where the wife of 'El Chapo' Guzmán was transferred]
"She is clearly crazy about leaving where she is and being able to return to her girls, she always mentions her girls to me," said Colón, who has not yet been able to see her client since she was transferred to Fort Worth.
Although family and friends visits are allowed in the Forth Worth minimum security prison, due to the coronavirus pandemic they have been suspended indefinitely, the lawyer explained to reporter Edgar Muñoz.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, arrives at the New York federal court in 2018. Seth Wenig / AP
Coronel, 32, was sentenced to 36 months in prison in November last year for the crimes of conspiracy to distribute drugs and help launder
El Chapo
's millions of dollars obtained from drug trafficking.
Due to the time he has already spent in custody in a Virginia prison and other unspecified locations for his own safety, Coronel could be paroled in May 2023.
Emma Coronel will be able to receive money, mail and visits in the minimum security prison where she will serve her sentence
Feb. 22, 202201:50
He plans to change and rebuild his life
The wife of one of the most wanted men in the United States, the ex-capo of the Sinaloa Cartel, has not seen her husband since he was extradited to the United States in 2017, Colón said.
"That she is the wife of Mr. Guzmán, that is something that can never be erased... I understand that she does not want to erase it, obviously she loves her husband very much, but that is not why we should cross her out," said the lawyer.
"She has the right to change, she has the right to make mistakes and she has the right to rebuild her life,"
he added.
'El Chapo' Guzmán will remain in prison: an appeals court confirms his life sentence
Jan. 25, 202201:56
Meanwhile,
El Chapo
's lawyers were unsuccessful when they appealed Judge Brian Cogan's sentence of life plus 30 years in prison in New York in 2019.
The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit of New York dismissed the petition of the former Sinaloa capo in January, confirming his sentence in the super maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, where he spends his days practically in complete isolation.
