Journalist: Women are key in Mexican drug trafficking's survival
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Guadalajara, Dec 5 (EFE).- The Mexican state should put on trial and imprison the wives and daughters of drug kingpins, given that they are key to maintaining the legacy of impunity and violence of the criminal groups, investigative journalist Anabel Hernandez told EFE in an interview on Sunday.
"The criminal organization remains and afterwards it's the children who are the successors of these capos - who educates the children? Who feeds that criminal system? It's the women ... the family environment. These women play a much more complex and fundamental role" than has been recognized to date, Hernandez said.
She said that Emma Coronel, the wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is the first such woman to be tried and convicted in the United States because that country understood the role she played in the organization. (Camera: JOSÉ LUIS GONZÁLE. Editor: NATTAKARN JEAMRUGEEKUL).
"The criminal organization remains and afterwards it's the children who are the successors of these capos - who educates the children? Who feeds that criminal system? It's the women ... the family environment. These women play a much more complex and fundamental role" than has been recognized to date, Hernandez said.
She said that Emma Coronel, the wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is the first such woman to be tried and convicted in the United States because that country understood the role she played in the organization. (Camera: JOSÉ LUIS GONZÁLE. Editor: NATTAKARN JEAMRUGEEKUL).