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US arrests wife of Mexico cartel chief El Chapo on drug charges

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. [Reuters]

The wife of Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested and charged in the United States on Monday with helping her husband continue to run his drug trafficking cartel while he was behind bars.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, a regular attendee at her husband’s high-profile U.S. trial two years ago where he was convicted of trafficking tons of drugs into the United States, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia.

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