Actor Sean Penn secretly interviewed drug lord ‘El Chapo’ in Mexico jungle

Guzman, the legendary boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested in northwest Mexico on Friday morning (local time), and sent back to the jail he broke out of in July through a mile-long tunnel that led straight into his cell.

The attorney general’s office said that lawyers for Guzman would have three days to file objections and 20 more days to prove them, though that timeframe could be extended, AFP news agency reported.

Since the article was published, Mexican law officials have claimed anonymously it was the Penn interview that led authorities to Guzman’s whereabouts in a rural part of Durango state.

Top officials in the party of President Enrique Peña Nieto also floated the idea of extradition, which they had flatly ruled out before Guzman’s embarrassing escape from Mexico’s top maximum security prison on July 11. During the ensuing firefight, which raged for more than an hour, Guzman managed to escape with a top lieutenant through a storm drain, as authorities said they had expected him to do.

“Given that “El Chapo” has already escaped from Mexican prison twice, this third opportunity to bring him to justice can not be squandered”, said US senator and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio.

The US rock magazine posted online on Saturday an interview between Penn and Guzman as well as an October 2 picture showing the Oscar-winning actor shaking hands with the moustachioed Sinaloa drug cartel leader, who is wearing a blue shirt.

Gomez said an “important aspect that allowed us to locate him was that we discovered Guzman’s intention to make a biographical film, for which he established contact with actresses and producers”.

Describing his preparation before meeting the drug lord, Penn said he was using burner phones, “one per contact, one per day, destroy, burn, buy, balancing levels of encryption, mirroring through Blackphones, anonymous email addresses, unsent messages accessed in draft form”.

Guzman wields a tremendous amount of power in his home country, and after six months on the lam, global authorities reportedly began to question whether Mexicans authorities would be able to re-capture the head of the world’s largest criminal empire.

Guzman, 58, is quoted as saying: “If there was no consumption, there would be no sales”. “So it sells and sells”.

The drug lord, who had been at large after escaping jail July a year ago, could be extradited as soon as mid 2016, a source close to the situation told Reuters Saturday.

Soldiers chased him through the sewer tunnels, but he made it to the surface, where he stole a auto, authorities said. “I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats”, he said.

“There are plans to cooperate with the US”, said the official, who spoke on condition anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to comment.

Before the United States can try Guzman, there will be a legal proceeding in Mexico were he could challenge extradition.

“You have to go through the judicial process, and the defence has its elements too”, an official said. Guzman and his security chief fled through the city’s drainage system.

The 57-year-old Guzman was captured in a no-frills motel after he snuck away from a safe house where a firefight with Mexican Marines left five of his henchmen dead. It is expected that he will be extradited within six months.

Mexican drug lord, Joaquin Guzman, known by his nickname “El Chapo”, is the kind of man jiska peecha gyarah mulkon ki police kar rahi hai.

“Why? Because he is Mexican, and Mexico has wise laws and a fair constitution, and there is absolute confidence in the prisons authority”.