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Stands by her 'maniac'
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s beauty-queen wife is blaming prosecutors and the media for making her husband out to be a criminal mastermind when he’s actually just a “simple” and “humble” man.
Emma Coronel Aispuro, who wed the Sinaloa cartel kingpin on her 18th birthday in 2007, told Telemundo she never noticed him doing anything illegal and said it’s the media who built up his notoriety.
“[The media] made him too famous,” Aispuro, 29, said in the interview with the Spanish-language network that aired Monday evening. “It’s not fair.
“They don’t want to bring him down from the pedestal to make him more like he is, a normal, ordinary person.”
But media coverage isn’t all bad, she said. For one thing, her 61-year-old husband enjoys the attention.
“He does like it a little,” Aispuro said.
The press coverage of El Chapo’s ongoing drug-trafficking trial in Brooklyn federal court is also necessary, Aispuro said, so that “media pressure is present and everything can be clearer and everyone can see what really happens.
“That’s what he really wants,” she said. “For everyone to realize how things really are and see it all from another perspective. More than anything, I think that’s what he wants. Just tell it like it is.”
The Los Angeles-born Kardashian look-alike hasn’t missed a day of her hubby’s trial since it began in November — and although it’s been “heavy” and “uncomfortable,” said she’s happy to support him.
“I think it’s what any wife would do in my place, be with her husband in difficult times,” Aispuro told Telemundo.
She also trusts that “everything will turn out well for him” and for the family — including their 7-year-old twin girls, Maria Joaquina and Emely.
Aispuro maintains she hasn’t spoken to her husband since Guzman’s extradition from Mexico to the United States in January 2017 and denies prosecutors’ claims that she contacted him through a cellphone supplied by his lawyers.
Their daughters “know everything” about their dad’s situation, she said — but the family dreams of the day they can live a “calm” life.
“[I want] to be calm, to be somewhere in the world where we can be at ease,” Aispuro said. “Tranquility, happiness, nothing out of the ordinary.
“I am [happy] with the life that I have, of the life that I was given, of the husband that I have, of the daughters that I have, of the family that I have . . . I am very satisfied,” she added.
“I have also had hard times, but I have always said that God does not put things in your path that he isn’t sure you will overcome.”