During the 2018-2019 trial of drug kingpin “El Chapo,” Emma Coronel Aispuro was in the courtroom nearly every day. She was described as the devoted wife there to support her husband. Now, she’s been arrested and charged with helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire and plotting to break him out of prison after he was captured in 2014. Marco Werman speaks with Michael Lettieri, a senior fellow at the University of California San Diego’s Center for US-Mexican Studies, about Coronel and the key role some women are playing in the cartel business.
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