In addition to the discussion about Penn, they also reveal flirtatious exchanges between El Chapo and Mexican soap-opera actress Kate del Castillo, who arranged the actor’s interview of the then-fugitive crime kingpin. They eventually tracked him down in Los Mochis, where he arrived on the eve of the raid. Another photograph seemingly shows Penn and del Castillo meeting with some men outside the Villa Ganz hotel in Guadalajara.
Mexico is formally starting extradition proceedings against Guzman, President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government said late on Sunday, in the strongest sign yet that it intends to send him to the United States.
Dramatic video taken by helmet camera and released by the Mexican government shows the deadly gunfight that took place shortly before El Chapo’s capture.
(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo). Lawyer Jose Gonzalez talks to the press after requesting an injunction to stop the extradition of arrested drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman at the Supreme Court in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016.
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Mike Vigil, former DEA chief of global operations who has been briefed on the Guzman investigation by USA and Mexican law enforcement, said there is a “very strong possibility that Penn and Del Castillo are going to have to testify”.
It’s widely believed that del Castillo met Penn through mutual friends where she discussed El Chapo’s idea for a film that was based on his life.
Mexican officials have already begun the process of extraditing Guzman to the United States, according to ABC 7, and his exact destination here will be determined by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. “There is no way that I can see any kind of legitimate prosecution that could come from this”, Geragos told the outlet.
Guzman was recaptured on Friday in northwest Mexico and is now back in the same maximum security prison he escaped from in July via a tunnel that burrowed right up into his cell.
“There is no question in my mind but that the DEA and the Mexican government are tracking our movements”, he wrote in Rolling Stone.
Kate Del Castillo is a well-known Mexican actress in Latin America having starred in telenovelas like “Muchachitas”, “La Mentira” and “La Reina Del Sur“.
It has emerged that Mexico has beefed up security out of concerns that the kingpin may escape from the Altiplano prison for a third time. Rose said he thinks Penn will not do any interviews with other reporters “until we sit down”.
In the interview in Rolling Stone, Guzman defended his role as the head of the world’s biggest drug-trafficking organization, blamed for thousands of killings.