Mexico wants to question actor del Castillo about drug lord

In an appearance Sunday on “60 Minutes”, Sean Penn defended his interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

But Penn insists that his visit, despite what the Mexican government is claiming, had absolutely nothing to do with the drug lord’s recapture. After finding the time to orchestrate a biopic about himself and have a sit down interview with Sean Penn, the wanted drug kingpin has reportedly squeezed in some time to undergo surgery for erectile dysfunction. Second, I want to know the sense of how you felt about the risk you might be taking, and why that risk was worth it?

“Well, nobody found him before they did”, Penn added.

“We’re not smarter than the DEA or the Mexican intelligence”, he explained, they just had the right contacts.

The official said del Castillo is considered a witness and is not accused of any crime.

The actor opined that the Mexican government has released the information about him because they wanted to see him blamed and to encourage the cartel to put him in their crosshairs.

“To over-demonize any human being is not in our best self-interest”, Penn said.

Mexican authorities finally caught El Chapo on January 8, months after he escaped from a maximum security prison.

But Penn called the arrangement no big deal, saying that he couldn’t have gotten the interview any other way and that if Guzmán had spiked it, “then that was no harm, no foul to any reader”. And it occurs to me that often, because we want to simplify the problem, and we want to look at a black hat and put our resources into focusing on the bad guy and na- and- and- ju- and I understand that.

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Sean Penn’s episode of 60 Minutes airs on CBS on Sunday.

But Penn says the authorities were “clearly very humiliated” by the perception that an actor had found the narco boss before them.

“They’ve been in this business a long time”, Penn said. When asked whether he feels responsible for high levels of drug addiction, El Chapo said, “No, that is false, because the day I don’t exist, it’s not going to decrease in any way at all”. “One – 1%? I think that’d be generous”. “Well, I want to see the license that says that they’re a journalist”, said Penn, who also defended his decision to let Guzman review the article before it was published – a move that most professional journalists would consider an absolute no-no.