Editing Joaquín Guzmán Loera (section)

== Personal life and family involvement into criminal activities ==
Guzmán's family is heavily involved in drug trafficking, with several members killed by Sinaloa's archrival cartels Los Zetas and the Beltrán Leyva Organization, including his brother and one of his sons.<sup>[87]</sup>

In 1977, Guzmán married Alejandrina María Salazar Hernández in a 
small ceremony in the town of Jesús María, Sinaloa. They had at least 
three children: César, Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo. He set them up
<nowiki> </nowiki>in a ranch home in Jesús María. When he was 30 years old, El Chapo had 
fallen in love with a bank clerk Estela Peña of Nayarit
<nowiki> </nowiki>whom he kidnapped and had sexual relations with. They eventually 
married each other. In the mid-1980s, Guzmán remarried, this time to 
Griselda López Pérez, with whom he had four more children: Édgar, 
Joaquín, Ovidio and Griselda Guadalupe.<sup>[85][249]</sup> Guzmán's sons would follow him into the drug business. López Pérez was arrested in 2010 in Culiacán.<sup>[250]</sup>

In November 2007, Guzmán married 18-year-old beauty queen Emma Coronel Aispuro<sup>[251]</sup> the daughter of one of his top deputies, Inés Coronel Barreras, in Canelas, Durango.<sup>[252][253][254]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>In August 2011, she gave birth to twin girls, Maria Joaquina and Emali 
Guadalupe, in a Los Angeles (California) County Hospital.<sup>[255][256]</sup>

On 1 May 2013, Guzmán's father-in-law Inés Coronel Barreras was captured by Mexican authorities in Agua Prieta,
<nowiki> </nowiki>Sonora, with no gunfire exchanged. U.S. authorities believe that 
Coronel Barreras was a "key operative" of the Sinaloa Cartel who grew 
and smuggled marijuana through the Arizona border area.<sup>[253]</sup>

On 15 February 2005, his son Iván Archivaldo, known as "El Chapito", was arrested in Guadalajara on money laundering charges.<sup>[257]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>He was sentenced to five years in a federal prison, but released in 
April 2008 after a Mexican federal judge, Jesús Guadalupe Luna, ruled 
that there was no proof his cash came from drugs other than that he was a
<nowiki> </nowiki>drug lord's son.<sup>[258]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>Luna and another judge were later suspended on suspicion of unspecified
<nowiki> </nowiki>irregularities in their decisions, including Luna's decision to release
<nowiki> </nowiki>"El Chapito".<sup>[258]</sup>

Guzmán's son Édgar Guzmán López died after a 2008 ambush in a shopping center parking lot in Culiacán in Sinaloa.<sup>[259]</sup> Afterwards, police found more than 500 AK-47 bullet casings (7.62×39mm) at the scene.<sup>[259]</sup> His brother Arturo, or "El Pollo", was killed in prison in 2004.<sup>[87]</sup>

Another of Guzmán's sons, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, known as "El 
Gordo" ("The Fat One"), then 23 years old, was suspected of being a 
member of the cartel and was indicted on federal charges of drug 
trafficking in 2009 with Guzmán by the U.S. District Court of Northern 
Illinois, which oversees Chicago.<sup>[257][260]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>With authorities describing Guzmán Salazar as a growing force within 
his father's organization and directly responsible for Sinaloa's drug 
trade between the U.S. and Mexico and managing his billionaire father's 
growing list of properties, Guzmán Salazar and his mother, Guzmán's 
former wife María Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, were both described as 
key operatives in the Sinaloa Cartel and added to the U.S.'s financial 
sanction list under the Kingpin Act on 7 June 2012.<sup>[260][261][262]</sup>

The Treasury Department described Salazar as Guzmán's wife in its sanction against her, and described Guzmán as her husband.<sup>[262]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>The month before, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions 
against Guzmán's sons Iván Guzmán Salazar and [[Ovidio Guzmán López]] under 
the Kingpin Act, which prohibits people and corporations in the U.S. 
from conducting businesses with them and freezes their U.S. assets.<sup>[263]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>Guzmán's second wife, Griselda López Pérez, was also sanctioned by the 
U.S. under the Kingpin Act and also described as Guzmán's wife.<sup>[264]</sup>

Jesús Guzmán Salazar was reported to have been detained by Mexican Marines in an early morning raid in the western state of Jalisco on 21 June 2012.<sup>[265]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>Months later, however, the Mexican Attorney General's Office announced 
the Marines had arrested the wrong man and that the man captured was 
actually Félix Beltrán León, who said he was a used-car dealer, not the 
drug lord's son.<sup>[257]</sup> U.S. and Mexican authorities blamed each other for providing the inaccurate information that led to the arrest.<sup>[257]</sup>

In 2012, Alejandrina Gisselle Guzmán Salazar, a 31-year-old pregnant 
physician and Mexican citizen from Guadalajara, was said to have claimed
<nowiki> </nowiki>she was Guzmán's daughter as she crossed the U.S. border into San 
Diego.<sup>[266]</sup> She was arrested on fraud charges for entering the country with a false visa.<sup>[250]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>Unnamed officials said the woman was the daughter of María Alejandrina 
Salazar Hernández but did not appear to be a major figure in the cartel.
<nowiki> </nowiki>She had planned to meet the father of her child in Los Angeles and give
<nowiki> </nowiki>birth in the United States.<sup>[250]</sup>

On the night of 17 June 2012, Obied Cano Zepeda, a nephew of Guzmán, 
was gunned down by unknown assailants at his home in the state capital 
of Culiacán while hosting a Father's Day celebration.<sup>[267]</sup> The gunmen, who were reportedly carrying AK-47 rifles, also killed two other guests and left one seriously injured.<sup>[267]</sup> Obied was a brother of Luis Alberto Cano Zepeda (''alias'' "El Blanco"), a nephew of Guzmán who worked as a pilot drug transporter for the Sinaloa cartel.<sup>[268]</sup> Nonetheless, he was arrested by the Mexican military in August 2006.<sup>[268]</sup> InSight Crime notes that the murder of Obied may have been a retaliation attack by Los Zetas for Guzmán's incursions into their territory or a brutal campaign heralding Los Zetas' presence in Sinaloa.<sup>[269]</sup>