{"id":9234,"date":"2025-10-02T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eplvip.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/ambitious-miss-world-soccer-player-breaks-her-silence-from-prison-she-was-convicted-of-drug-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:11:35","slug":"ambitious-miss-world-soccer-player-breaks-her-silence-from-prison-she-was-convicted-of-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eplvip.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/ambitious-miss-world-soccer-player-breaks-her-silence-from-prison-she-was-convicted-of-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambitious Miss World soccer player breaks her silence from prison: she was convicted of drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"capital-letter\">j<\/span>Uliana Lopez, a soccer player who had planned to compete in the Miss World contest after winning a beauty contest in Colombia, talks about her situation in a Chinese prison after being sentenced to 15 years in prison for cocaine trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, former Colombian Diva Football Club player and her ex-boyfriend Juan Esteban Marin were arrested at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, who hid 610 grams of cocaine from a computer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ue-c-article__summary\">\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--video  video-dailymotion\"><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-description\">Julio Csar Chvez Jr. has been arrested in California on suspicion of partnering with the Sinaloa cartel<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Football player and model Juliana Lopez escaped the death penalty after being sentenced in China<\/h2>\n<p>Juliana Lopez avoided the death penalty and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and could be released in 2026 (four years before the plan).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--image\">\n<div class=\"ue-c-article__media-img-container ue-l-article--expand-edge-right-until-tablet ue-l-article--expand-edge-left-until-tablet\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1172\" height=\"862\" class=\"ue-c-article__image\" alt=\"\" bad-src=\"https:\/\/e01-marca.uecdn.es\/assets\/multimedia\/imagenes\/2025\/10\/02\/17594134656151.png\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>According to the newspaper Nanfang Daily, his good attitude and regret during the judicial process influenced his decision not to impose a life sentence or death penalty.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">A letter from soccer player Juliana Lopez to his mother from a Chinese prison: &#8220;The situation is stressful&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The former soccer player, who was arrested at the age of 21 and now 31, wrote to his mother in 2021, four years later by Columbia&#8217;s media outlet La Red.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My love for love, my mother, I don&#8217;t like anything else in the world. People are surprised and say there are many people who love me,&#8221; Juliana Lopez wrote to Nubia Sarazola, who traveled to China to be near her daughter during her prisoners.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--image\">\n<div class=\"ue-c-article__media-img-container ue-l-article--expand-edge-right-until-tablet ue-l-article--expand-edge-left-until-tablet\"><img width=\"1172\" height=\"781\" class=\"ue-c-article__image\" alt=\"\" bad-src=\"https:\/\/e01-marca.uecdn.es\/assets\/multimedia\/imagenes\/2025\/10\/02\/17594134667212.png\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;For better or worse, so many people still see us, but I consider it a godly blessing. The situation here is getting more and more stressful,&#8221; said the former footballer, who emphasized that she devoted herself to studying and working during her first six years in prison in China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I share that I am struggling with a lot of work pressure. Now we are taking exams,&#8221; said Juliana Lopez, who also works in the manufacture of Motors for prison fans and hair dryers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/football\/2025\/10\/02\/68de83e822601d974d8b4581.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jUliana Lopez, a soccer player who had planned to compete in the Miss World contest after winning a beauty contest in Colombia, talks about her situation in a Chinese prison after being sentenced to 15 years in prison for cocaine trafficking. 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