Emma Coronel Aispuro is once again in the news after her drug kingpin husband, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, recently escaped a maximum-security facility in Mexico.
Aispuro first met Guzman in 2006 through her family members who had ties with the Sinaloa Cartel, which is headed by Guzman. The following year, in 2007, she was named as the local Coffee and Guava Queen of Canelas, a Mexican town.
According to a report by The Daily Beast, El Chapo held a lavish party announcing Emma's candidacy for the pageant in June 6, 2007. Aside from the hundreds of armed men in motorcycles, El Chapo himself, who arrived on a private plane with an automatic weapon in hand, attended the party. The couple announced their engagement during the party and as expected, Aispuro ended up winning the beauty pageant.
The former beauty queen, having been born in California in November 1989, has a dual-citizenship. Upon learning that she is pregnant with El Chapo's twins, the 25-year-old Aispuro flew to California a few months prior to her delivery date. In Aug. 15, 2011, she gave birth to two girls at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, California.
By the laws that govern the country, both girls are U.S. citizens having been born within the country's sovereign territory to a mother who is a U.S. citizen.
However, further scrutiny of their birth certificates reveal that their father, Joaquin Guzman, is not specified in the documents. Note that Guzman is also wanted in the U.S. under charges of drug trafficking and organized crime. The U.S. government announced its intent to have the drug kingpin extradited but made no formal appeal to the Mexican government due to the latter's obvious response.
Aispuro has made no comments regarding her husband's escape from a maximum-security prison in Altiplano last Saturday night.
