Sympathy can often be hard to come by for hardened criminals, and when you consider the long list of wrongdoings blamed on Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán it may be a lost cause fought by his wife Emma Coronel.

The 26-year-old, the drug kingpin’s third wife [pictured below], recently gave her first interview during which time she gushed over what a charming chap he is and how he is being mistreated by those entrusted with watching over him.

El Chapo is currently being held in solitary confinement in El Altiplano, with these excerpts below from the Guardian:

[She] said her husband was being “slowly tortured” in prison and was suffering from dangerously high blood pressure which made her “afraid for his life”…

“They want to make him pay for his escape. They say that they are not punishing him. Of course they are. They are there with him, watching him in his cell … all day long, calling attendance. They don’t let him sleep. He has no privacy, not even to go to the bathroom.”

“Anything evil that happens in whatever part of the world is [blamed on] El Chapo … he is not the most powerful capo in the world … but the [Mexican] government made him the most wanted capo in the world perhaps to hide more important things.

“He’s not violent, he’s not rude, I’ve never seen him say a bad word to anyone,” she added…

I don’t know about you but I find that kind of hard to believe. El Chapo is currently facing seven criminal indictments in several US states, on charges including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, money laundering and drug distribution.

It should also be noted that Coronel claimed she had no idea her husband was involved in any form of drug trafficking during their marriage. Can someone please inform this woman how Google works?

[source:guardian]