In just over a decade, Miryam Andrea Castillo Moreno went from being a young woman from San Nicolás, a municipality adjacent to Monterrey, known for her work as an aide-de-camp to being in the crosshairs of the United States for her marriage to an alleged Canadian boss.
The 34-year-old Nicolaíta is the wife of Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic athlete and alleged drug trafficker, who was arrested last Thursday in México City while the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Kash Patel, met with senior Mexican security officials.
The names of Ryan and Miryam gained international prominence in November, when the United States Department of the Treasury accused Wedding of leading a violent criminal organization that traffics 60 tons of cocaine annually to Canada in alliance with the Drug Cartel. Sinaloa. “Castillo,” the Treasury charged, “launders drug money for Wedding and has helped him carry out acts of violence.”
According to US media, which cited US officials, Miryam married in 2011 when Wedding was in prison serving a three-year sentence after a failed drug deal in San Diego.
However, they did not clarify how they met and began their relationship. In Nuevo León, people who knew Castillo pointed out that between 2012 and 2013 he was still an aide-de-camp at commercial and sporting events, but then he began to show off a luxurious lifestyle on social media. Currently, Nicolaíta’s social media accounts are deactivated and her location is unknown, while last Friday, Wedding arrived in the United States handcuffed and guarded by FBI personnel. For the Bureau, Wedding was one of its priority objectives. “Just so you know what a bad person Ryan Wedding is,” Patel said Friday. “He went from being an Olympic snowboarder to the biggest drug trafficker of modern times. “He is a modern-day ‘El Chapo’ (Guzmán). He is a Pablo Escobar of our days,” he stressed.
Source: Agencia Reforma from Diario MX on 2026-01-25 05:17:00
