drug lord “El Chapo looks set to die in prison after failing in his bid to overturn his life sentence in a US court. He was convicted in 2019 on charges of narcotics trafficking, using a firearm in furtherance of drug crimes and participating in a money laundering conspiracy.
As well as his jail sentence he was also fined a staggering $12.7 billion (£9.40 billion). Witnesses at El Chapo’s 12-week trial told of private submarines packed with drugs, as well as carbon fibre “stealth” aircraft, and even secret tunnels that extended beneath the US border.The Sinaloa Cartel boss, 64, is now likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars.El Chapo, real name Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, is currently confined to a 7-by-12-foot concrete cell in ADX Florence in Colorado, America’s most secure federal prison.He’s currently banned from contacting his wife, Emma Coronel Aispurois, who is also serving a three-year prison term for drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
In a new book about Coronel called Emma And The Other Narco Women, author Anabel Hernandez claims that El Chapo’s marriage to Coronel is not legal because he is still technically married to his first wife, social worker Alejandrina Salazar.
The couple have five children together. "Legally they are not married,” says Hernandez. "Legally the only wife of El Chapo is Alejandrina Salazar, his first wife.
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