Why Mexico Realizes it Must Extradite Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman

The chats, published by the newspaper “Milenio” on Wednesday, took place before and after Guzman, Del Castillo and United States actor Sean Penn sat down for a now notorious meeting in the Mexican jungle in October.

Details of flirtatious phone messaging chats between Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and actress Kate del Castillo have gripped Mexico, and an official said his “obsession” with her led him to lower his guard and be caught.

El Chapo, who was once named Public Enemy Number One in the USA, escaped from the maximum security jail near Mexico City in July before being recaptured on Friday.

The article revealed that the actor traveled to Mexico to interview the drug lord in October, while Guzman was on the run from Mexican authorities after escaping prison. The whole process could take years.

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Del Castillo sparked uproar in 2012 when she wrote on Twitter that she believes “more in Chapo Guzman than the governments”.

They spoke to Guzman about his wanting a biopic made of his life.

During his previous 17 month stint behind bars, Guzman asked his lawyers to begin the process of trade-marking his name with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), according to Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola. Mexico informed Guzman on Sunday that it’s taking steps to extradite him to the U.S., a move that, while reducing the risk that he escapes for a third time, would also go against their own previous pledges to hold him in Mexico as a matter of national sovereignty.

Unless Penn aided and abetted Guzman in some way, the Oscar-winning actor would not have a duty to disclose to authorities that he was talking to a fugitive, legal experts said.

Mexico is again holding Guzman at the Altiplano prison he escaped from, but authorities say they have beefed up security, stationing a military tank outside the prison and perhaps more importantly installing thick metal rods centimeters apart under the floor of his cell to prevent his tunneling out of the facility like he did six months ago.

Mexican officials say information about that meeting helped them locate the Sinaloa group chief. El Chapo apprehended following shootout in home state of SinaloaFive people died in gun battle at the home located in the seaside city of Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa. Del Castillo has not commented. Authorities built the investigation around the extraordinary cooperation of Pedro and Margarito Flores, twin drug dealers from Chicago’s West Side who rose to be the Sinaloa cartel’s top USA distributors.

Guzman faces money laundering, drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder charges in the United States.

Penn has dismissed criticism of his interview, however, defending his actions by saying Guzman and his men were “not to be f **** d with”.