Newspaper photos appear to show Penn monitored

The interview for Rolling Stone was conducted over a seven-hour meeting, and in follow-up interviews over the phone and in video, Penn says in the article.

A meeting made for the movies: Sean Penn met and interviewed Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo, in a mountain jungle clearing while El Chapo was on the run this fall.

Penn told the Associated Press on Monday that he’s not concealing anything from authorities.

The dark-haired actress said Guzman never responded and that she did not know him.

Items found by marines at the Los Mochis property included DVDs of “La Reina Del Sur”, a fictional series about a female drug boss starring Mexican actress Kate del Castillo.

Two photos, apparently taken from a distance, show a man resembling Penn and a woman, identified as Del Castillo, arriving at the airport in the western city of Guadalajara on October 2.

Guzmán’s attorney Juan Pablo Badillo said the defense has filed six motions against the government’s extradition request.

But Vice News reporter Danny Gold tweeted late on Saturday: “Never a fan of Penn’s journalism but me and every other journo would have compromised a whole lot more to get an interview with El Chapo”.

“No, you’re reading hits”, he said. “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”.

U.S. investigators will also examine Penn’s interactions with Guzman, two USA government sources said, but it was unclear if prosecutors would try to force the actor to turn over information about the interview. Both Penn and del Castillo are reportedly under investigation by Mexican authorities. The only interview the drug lord is believed to have given in decades was brokered with the help of the Mexican television star Kate del Castillo.

Guzman, who has escaped twice from Mexican maximum security prisons and is being sought for extradition by the United States, was recaptured on Friday after a bloody shootout in the city of Los Mochis in his home state of Sinaloa. “We’ve had cases that take six years”.

He has twice escaped a “top security” prison, in 2014 and again last July.

Guzmán’s associates dug the tunnel that led to his cell over the course of a year, and on the day of his escape, Guzmán hopped on a motorbike at the base of the tunnel and rode to safety in a house outside the prison gates.

On Monday, the prison was ringed by soldiers, some riding in armored personnel carrier, as well as marines and federal police.

During the interview with Mr Penn, the drug lord declared: “I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world”.