El Chapo’s Actress Obsession Led To Arrest

Following that meeting, which Mexican authorities had known about, troops entered Guzman’s remote mountain stronghold in northwestern Mexico in order to “spit him out toward a city”, a government official told reporters on condition of anonymity. “It’s also embarrassing that the Mexican government has to say that the only way we can keep control of this notorious druglord is by sending him to another country”.

Federal police chasing reports of stolen cars had no idea they were onto the world’s most wanted drug lord.

But the Mexican billionaire’s lawyer says that neither the assumption that El Chapo had approved the article or the quote were true, and has demanded to see evidence.

“He is being changed from cell to cell without a pattern… he is only spending hours or a couple of days in the same cell”, Sanchez said late Tuesday night.

The boss of Mexico’s feared Sinaloa cartel exchanged text messages with Kate del Castillo, famous for her role as a drug boss in a TV show, frequently after his escape from a maximum-security prison in July 2015. For now, analysts have competing views about details of Penn’s escapade to meet the druglord along with Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo.

Worse, he lobs softball questions that delicately avoid zeroing in on, say, drugs, murders, kidnappings, torture and other activities that make El Chapo a menace to society.

“If you are asking if someone commits this crime just by meeting and interviewing, I do not think so”, he said.

Penn’s account of Espinoza, the man who escorted Penn and Del Castillo to El Chapo, similarly baffled Cortina.

Emboldened by his miraculous liberation, Guzman, who came from extreme poverty, appears to have been overtaken by hubris. “There was no pushback, no challenging of (El Chapo’s assertions)”.

Guzman’s ties with del Castillo began publicly in 2012 when the actress, who has fronted campaigns for L’Oreal and Ford, wrote an open letter calling on the capo to “traffic in goodness” and saying she believed more in him than the government.

While we are hearing from apologists about the lengths to which artists such as Mr. Penn are called to go in pursuit of their “craft”, perhaps he and Ms. del Castillo should have stayed home this time.

DVDs of the Spanish-language telenovela “La Reina del Sur” are seen on the sheets of a bed inside Guzman’s safe house on January 11, 2016. That was in part why Penn’s relationship to the Mexican actor was of interest to law enforcement, official said.

Carlos Barragan y Salvatierra, a professor of law at Mexico’s National University, said there would be little ground to prosecute Penn or Del Castillo, unless money or gifts changed hands.

Guzman had the interview with Penn and del Castillo in October, Breaking News reported.

Del Castillo is a Mexican-American who played a drug kingpin in the television series Weeds who El Chapo, 58, was infatuated with and wanted to plan a wine and tequila filled weekend. The full extent of Penn’s interaction with the cartel kingpin did not become clear until the Rolling Stone article published, one of the officials said.

After the meeting, the actress wrote to Guzman: “I don’t sleep much since I saw you“.