Woman, Testifying Against El Chapo, Details Affair

Woman, Testifying Against El Chapo, Details Affair
Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, a girlfriend of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman (front, 2nd R) testifies as Guzman's wife Emma Coronel (R) looks on from the gallery, with Guzman's defense attorney Eduardo Balarezo (2nd L) listening, in this courtroom sketch in Brooklyn federal court, in New York City on Jan. 17, 2019. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters
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NEW YORK—Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez was already trapped in an impossible extramarital relationship with Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman when she found herself in an even crazier bind—fleeing with Guzman and others from authorities through an underground tunnel, her outlaw love interest in the buff.

Guzman “was naked,” Sanchez said Thursday. “He took off running. He left us behind.”