Wife of the Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman claimed the Mexican government made her husband into the most wanted criminal in the world. She also spoke on her first interview on the public at a US Spanish-language program on Sunday that her husband was a loving and intelligent man and fears for his life in prison.
The Yahoo News reported, former beauty queen, Emma Coronel, 26 claimed in her interview on Telemundo that her husband is an affectionate family man and that Mexican authorities unfairly portray him as the world's most wanted kingpin. "That doesn't mean that he turned into the world's most wanted kingpin," Coronel said.
The Sinaloa cartel boss' wife also revealed that she doesn't know anything that her husband trafficked in drugs. She blasted the Mexican authorities for covering up more important things over her husband's case. "The things they are bringing out and saying seems highly exaggerated," she said.
On her first interview with the known investigative reporter in Mexico, Anabel Hernández, Coronel added that her husband was being "slowly tortured" in prison, the Guardian reported. She fears for his life as he was suffering on a dangerous high blood pressure.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, 58 years old was recaptured on January 8, six months after he tunneled his way out of a maximum security prison. The most notorious kingpin was held on in solitary confinement and is highly guarded and "under constant watch by hooded, armed guards and police dogs", Coronel said.
The CNN News reported, the mother of Guzman's US-born twin daughters filed a complaint on Mexico's National Human Rights Commission over her husband's harsh situation in prison. Prison authorities at the Altiplano assigned two permanent guards in front of his cell to watch his every move. They also regularly move Guzman to a new cell without warning. "He has no privacy, not even to go to the restroom," Coronel revealed.
She believed that he's being mistreated in prison as payback for embarrassing the government by escaping last year. Guzman and Coronel were reportedly married in 2007 in the northern state of Durango, when she was 18 years old. Guzmán is facing seven criminal indictments in several US states, on charges including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, money laundering and drug distribution.
