How dream woman led to drug kingpin’s recapture

Showing just why he is nicknamed Shorty, the world’s most powerful drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman poses for a new prison mugshot after being recaptured.

An article on Guzman based upon his meeting with Penn later appeared in Rolling Stone magazine, where the drugs boss talked about his childhood, how he became involved in the drugs trade and became head of the Sinaloa cartel.

“I don’t know if a U.S. Attorney could argue that Penn or Del Castillo’s objective of traveling was to promote El Chapo’s drug smuggling operations, but maybe the man and his criminal enterprise are one and the same”, he added.

The messages provide a new window into the mysterious relationship between the then-fugitive and Del Castillo, who brokered the sitdown between Guzman and Penn, which authorities are investigating.

The series is slated to be called “Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman: El varon de la droga”, which loosely translates as “The Drug Baron”.

He also instructed one of his representatives to buy her a pink mobile phone, according to the texts.

Even when Guzman dedicated a video statement as an “exclusive for” Del Castillo and Penn, the drug lord stumbles over Penns first name, pronouncing it “SAY-ahn.”The federal official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he or she was not authorized to be quoted by name, said the dozens of texts were authentic.

Now for the first time since Guzman’s capture, del Castillo spoke out publicly in a tweet Wednesday.

El Chapo was pinched on Friday, six months after he broke out of the maximum security prison near Mexico City that’s holding him now.

The Blackberry messages, which were intercepted by Mexican authorities, jibe with the official story: Guzman reached out to del Castillo, and a visit to the drug lord’s hideout by the actress and Penn was arranged. And there was another caveat: in one message, the account identified as Del Castillos mentions a US lawyer who she said had offered to handle Guzmans affairs — presumably related to the movie project.

Penn had his own implied criticism for Mexican forces, expressing surprise that a soldier at a checkpoint waved his vehicle through on the way to the meeting with Guzman in October.

CBS News anchor Charlie Rose teased a sitdown interview with Penn while speaking to reporters at a Television Critics Association panel Tuesday. Figure out when you can come back, I hope it will be soon…

The state of Texas has ensured the PGR that it will not apply the death penalty if Guzman is tried in Texas on charges of drug trafficking and other crimes, another daily newspaper, El Universal, reported.

About 100 journalists have been murdered in Mexico in the last ten years, due to their work exposing the activities of the cartels and corruption.

Ermoza: “I haven’t been able to sleep much since I saw you”. “I think Penn has violated this law and can be charged with that”. Guzman evaded authorities then, but was finally captured after a shootout last Friday in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa.