A woman who says she had an affair with Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman testified against him on Thursday at his US trial.
Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López, 29, a former legislator in Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa, told a New York City jury that the relationship mixed business with pleasure in a way that caused discomfort.
According to the NYPost, Wife Emma Coronel Aispuro cackled in laughter as Lucero wept so much that she had to be taken out of the Brooklyn federal courtroom.
Chapo and his beauty queen wife, who often blow each other kisses in court, were both tense and avoided eye contact as Sanchez began discussing her affair with the cocaine kingpin. But Coronel, 29, soon cracked a small smirk when Sanchez, also 29, described her relationship with the 61-year-old cartel boss to the jurors.
“Up until today I am still confused because today I thought we were still involved as partners,” the petite bottle-blonde said.
Sanchez said she first started dating Chapo in 2011 at age 21, and then began working for him in the drug trade.
Text messages between the two displayed in court Thursday showed they mixed business and pleasure.
In one January 2012 exchange, Sanchez told Guzman she was sending him 350 kilograms of pot on a plane, and he asked her if she had marked the packages in any way.
“Love, there is a heart on them,” she replied — to which he responded: “How sweet.”
She then moved on to organizing money-laundering through front businesses in Mexico, Los Angeles and Ecuador — Chapo at one point told her to hire “a low-income person who would be easily manipulated” — and then decided to make a career change into local politics.
Sanchez was elected to the state’s congress in 2013 — but continued her involvement with the drug kingpin, even as her interest waned.
“I thought that the relationship had ended, but it seemed like it would never end,” said Sanchez, who later lost her seat due to her relationship with Chapo and was arrested trying to cross the US border in 2017.
She said she brought Guzman “his shirts, his pants, his tennis shoes, his underwear, his lotions” while he was hiding out from the authorities — and also 32-waist by 32-length jeans that she had to modify to a 28-inch length to match the diminutive drug lord’s stature.
Sanchez said she was in bed with Guzman at one of his many hideouts in Culiacan on the night of Feb. 16, 2014, when the US feds and Mexican Marines showed up to raid the house — and Chapo fled butt naked through a secret tunnel underneath his bathtub.... spill TEA ☕
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