Mexico moving recaptured drug lord Guzman from cell to cell

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

Actor Sean Penn said he has “nothin’ to hide”, after images published Monday indicated he was under surveillance when he met with the Mexican actress who led him to Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman – and the pair was apparently followed and photographed as they set out for the supposedly secret meeting with the drug lord.

Guzman’s capture came six months after his dramatic escape through a mile-long tunnel he dug from his cell at the maximum-security Altiplano prison, west of Mexico City.

El Chapo’s “greatest hits” include gruesome massacres he authorized in which multiple victims were dismembered, burned or otherwise mutilated and left for others to find as a message.

Juan Pablo Badillo, one of Guzman’s lawyers, said his client was physically very weak and complained he was being exposed to “brutal psychological pressure”.

Most recently, we saw Kate del Castillo on the big screen in the new movie The 33, which is based on the Chilean miners who got trapped.

Late Tuesday, a Mexican federal official said the government is moving Guzman constantly from cell to cell.

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. Kate has become a very popular actress in Mexico, appearing in a whole host of shows and movies there, as well as landing her fair share of acting work in the U.S. along the way.

It is claimed he eventually made his way to the seaside city of Los Mochis in his native Sinaloa state, where he was captured on Friday in a deadly shoot-out with Mexican marines.

The newspaper Milenio published yesterday phone text messages between Guzman and Del Castillo that were intercepted by the authorities between October and November.

She later said that her messages to Guzman were “ironic” but Penn wrote in Rolling Stone that the kingpin sought to send her flowers afterwards.

Badillo said he saw no conflict in accepting payment for legal services from a wanted drug trafficker, saying all Mexican’s have a right to a defense in court.

An interior ministry security official, who has visited the jail on various occasions, said the problem with housing kingpins like “Chapo” was that they could easily buy off the entire prison staff.

In the end, Guzman narrowly escaped.

Mexico’s government says it plans to extradite Guzman to the United States, where he is wanted on charges including drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder.