I n the midst of an important Italian fashion event, Emma Coronel Aispuro , who is a former beauty queen but no ordinary model, appeared on the Milan catwalk wearing a sumptuous wedding dress. The wife of Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera – better known by the nickname El Chapo, or “the shorty”, due to his short stature – made her appearance at Palazzo Serbelloni during Milan fashion week (which, incidentally, has officially distanced itself from her). Much has been written about the fact of her appearance.
The remaining issue is why it happened and whether those who were complicit knew what they were complicit in. Guzmán is considered the premier Mexican drug lord. Before his capture, he was head of the Sinaloa cartel .
He has escaped from prison twice : in 2001 and then in 2015. Arrested again in 2016, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is serving in Florence prison, Colorado. I have extensively written about his criminal affairs, so much so that, on 6 October 2015, the Mexican television channel El Universal broadcast a video shot in La Piedrosa, in the hideout from which Guzmán had managed to escape shortly before the blitz by the police.
In those images, you could clearly see, together with some personal effects including shirts and other clothing, the American edition of my book ZeroZeroZero : a book in which Guzmán was the absolute and undisputed protagonist. I followed the cocaine routes, and they led me to study Guzmán’s affairs. The .