Deeply private text messages between Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera and his wife displayed at the Mexican drug lord’s Brooklyn trial Wednesday

Feds accessed private texts between El Chapo and Emma Coronel Aispuro revealed at trial thanks to spyware he installed on her phone

Coronel Aispuro, 29, sat stone-faced as a prosecution witness tells court how authorities obtained her most intimate marital text exchanges

Agents flipped tech guru who installed spyware on Coronel’s phone at the behest of her 61-year-old husband

Same techie gave investigators the keys to the Sinaloa Cartel’s encrypted network

Cartel head, El Chapo Guzman has pled not guilty on 17 counts related to drug trafficking, money laundering, conspiracy and illegal firearms

 

 

Weak link: Intimate private text messages between Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera and his wife Emma Coronel Aispuro on full public display at the Mexican drug lord’s Brooklyn trial Wednesday, exposed her knowledge of his activities

Contrary to claims by El Capo’s wife that she is a ‘law-abiding businesswoman’ and married to a ‘caring family man’, deeply private text messages between Joaquín Guzmán Loera and his wife were put on full display at the Mexican drug lord’s Brooklyn trial Wednesday and revealed how the couple casually discussed everything from hair dye and their daughters to police raids and cartel casualties. She was very much in the know about her husband’s activities.
The drug lord’s wife Emma Coronel Aispuro, 29, sat stone-faced as a prosecution witness explained how authorities got their hands on her most intimate marital messages.
Agent Stephen Marston explained the same ‘techie’ who flipped and gave investigators the keys to the Sinaloa Cartel’s encrypted network also installed spyware on Coronel’s phone at the behest of Chapo.
He said after the IT guy Cristián Rodriguez got the FlexiSpy software up and running, they issued a subpoena.
The messages shown to jurors were exchanged between late 2011 and early 2012, Marston testified.
In the exchange, Coronel and Guzmán chat lovingly about their twin daughters Emaly and Maria, born Aug. 15, 2011, and nicknamed Mali and Kiki.
“Our Kiki is fearless, I’m going to give her an AK-47 so she can hang with me,” Chapo texted Emma on the girls’ six-month birthday. 

During ta raid FBI on one of El Chapo’s hideouts in 2012, a villa in Cabo San Lucas, agents found grenades, financial records and size-9 Nike sneakers

In another message, Coronel teased her husband, “Recently, I’ve been told Mali looks more like you, but she has a sweet disposition.”
Chapo regularly referred to his wife as “my love” and “mommy,” while Coronel addressed him as “Don Joaquin,” “Papi,” and “Mr. Joaquín.”
During one thread, Coronel asked her husband if a group of men “killed just now” were his workers. He calmly reassured her they were not.
Some of the most Incriminating texts involved Chapo talking to Coronel about having to flee a Cabo San Lucas villa that was raided by U.S. and Mexican authorities on Feb. 22, 2012.

Prior trial testimony described the financial records, grenades and size-9 Nike shoes recovered at the location.
The place was raided at about 3 p.m., and not long after, Guzman texted Coronel to describe his hair-raising escape and ask for a backup supply of black mustache dye.
“I had to run out at 3 in the afternoon,” Chapo texted. “I’ve been scratched up, but fine. Thank God.”
He said later in the thread it all happened “very fast.”
“I saw them pounding on the door next door, but I was able to jump out,” he wrote to Coronel.
“Oh, love. That’s horrible,” Coronel responded. “I’ll be watching the news to see what they say, love.”
Chapo said that would be helpful because there was no TV where he was hiding.

That particular raid was mostly a failure because the inhabitants of the residence escaped, according to a former FBI agent Jose Moreno.
Moreno has testified that U.S. authorities provided Mexican authorities with the Cabo location, but Mexican special forces showed up two hours late and failed to secure the residence from all sides, apparently allowing Chapo to sneak out the back.
Video of the villa played for jurors seemed to show hastily abandoned rooms and footprints leading from the backyard pool area to a dry creek behind the house.

Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman poses with some of the formidable arsenal that his private ‘army’ deployed in his protection

In the messages El Chapo mentioned that in addition to the mustache dye, he also needed two pairs of black shoes in a Mexican size-7, which translates to a U.S. size-8.5.
In another series of messages, Chapo apparently is concerned about whether his wife had protection.
“Do you have a gun?” he texted her.
“Yes, I have one of yours,” she replied.
“Put it in (the) hidden compartment, darling,” he instructed Coronel.
Chapo’s well-documented paranoia was on full display in the recovered messages read to jurors.

In various exchanges, he warned Coronel not to talk about their houses on the phone and informs her she’s being followed.
“Love, whenever you see suspicious-looking cars, let me know so I can get them checked out right away,” he texted. “They’re following you, darling. You just continue to lead a normal life. They just want to know if you come to where I am.”

Appearing on Telemundo, Emma Coronel [left], claimed to be a ‘law-abiding businesswoman’ and described her husband as a ‘caring family man’

Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Loera, 61, has pled not guilty on 17 counts in the drug trafficking, money laundering, conspiracy and illegal firearms case.
Coronel gave a rare on-camera interview to Telemundo last month in which she claimed to be a law-abiding businesswoman and described her husband as a caring family man.

The couple reportedly met at a party organized by her father, Inés Coronel Barreras, a cattle rancher and Sinaloa Cartel member.
Chapo was smitten and purportedly used his influence to ensure the 17-year-old pageant contestant won the crown at the Coffee and Guava Festival in the Mexican state of Durango in 2007.
They married the week of Coronel’s 18th birthday.
Further testimony Wednesday revealed Coronel sometimes handed her phone over to her father so he could text with Chapo too.