‘El Chapo’ Met With U.S. Actor Sean Penn

“But El Chapo is behind bars”.

A Mexican law enforcement official said Saturday that the interview in the remote community of Tamazula in the northern state of Durango helped authorities track the whereabouts of the drug lord, who earns millions shipping tons of cocaine and manufacturing and transporting methamphetamine and heroin to world markets, the largest in the USA market.

Guzman, head of the powerful, global Sinaloa Cartel, was appeared in dark blue athletic clothing Friday as he was frog-marched to a helicopter by marines, who stopped mid-transit and turned his expressionless face toward the media for a clear view.

In a series of tweets, MSNBC host Chris Hayes argued that it is “obviously, unambiguously indefensible to give the subject of an interview/article final say over its publication”, but that matters of right and wrong take a backseat to business calculations at some publications.

He wrote that after Guzman was arrested in February 2014, “he was interested in seeing the story of his life told on film, but would entrust its telling only to Kate”.

Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez said on Friday that Guzman had met with unnamed actors and producers in the hope of making a biopic about himself, which helped locate him. She had had limited contact with Guzman via letters, BBM and one of his lawyers.

Gomez said that one of Guzman’s key tunnel builders led them to the neighborhood in Los Mochis, where authorities did surveillance for a month.

Penn’s article had an extensive editor’s note tacked to the top which stated that the article had been reviewed by the subject, who had made no changes, and that some names and locations had been changed.

Hours later, the Sinaloa cartel kingpin was flown to the Altiplano maximum-security prison, the scene of his daring escape some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of the capital. “You kill a legend by extraditing him to the United States once he’s served some time in Mexico because once you send him to Mexico, he ceases to become important”.

“In strict accordance with the constitution, he can not nor should not be extradited to any foreign country”, Badillo told local television channel Milenio. He could be extradited to the United States, perhaps Brooklyn, where he has been indicted by a grand jury. “We do not know if he let the authorities know or not, and some of the authorities have said that they knew that he was meeting with celebrities”. He was recaptured in the northwestern city of Los Mochis on Friday following a bloody shootout and frantic search in which the wily kingpin nearly gave pursuers the slip again.

“They pulled back. All of sudden they were anxious about the security of El Chapo”, Fonseca says.

The infamous “El Chapo” could be sent to the U.S.to face trial where he is wanted for smuggling vast amounts of drugs into the country. Mexico’s government was aware the interview was being conducted, and was closely monitoring all movements, a government source said. Should Guzman lose those appeals, he would be handed over to the U.S.

Juan Masini, former U.S. Department of Justice attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, predicted that the authorities could face a long war of legal attrition. He had been recaptured six months after escaping from a maximum security prison. He spent 13 years on the lam.