(Kiko Guerrero via AP/EL DEBATE).
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Five of the kingpin’s henchmen were killed in a shootout with marines when Guzman was captured in his home state of Sinaloa – and six were captured.
According to Penn, Mexican actress Kate del Castillo brokered the meeting with El Chapo, who broke out of prison last July.
Gonzalez says he believes Guzman won’t be extradited until the Mexican government has a chance to cross examine him.
Their initial conversation covered topics such as the Middle East and meeting Pablo Escobar – “Yes, I met him once at his house”.
Asked if he feels responsible for the high level of addictions in the world, he said: “It’s false”. However, it is not known exactly how the meeting contributed to his capture. But apparently they were not enough.
The authorities said they could have fired on Guzman at his hideout, but decided against because he was with two women and a child. Guzman was apprehended in Sinaloa following a shoot-out with Mexican marines. “I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats”, said El Chapo To Penn in the secret interview.
But weeks ago, he gave an unprecedented glimpse into his psyche in a secret interview with Hollywood A-lister Sean Penn for Rolling Stone magazine that was published yesterday.
Penn’s rare access to the capo was assisted by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo.
“With respect, and from my point of view, it’s a person who’s not looking for problems in any way”, he told Penn in a video recording.
“Mexico is ready. There are plans to co-operate with the USA”, said the official. But unlike bin Laden, who had posed the ludicrous premise that a country’s entire population is defined by – and therefore complicit in – its leadership’s policies, with the world’s most wanted drug lord, are we, the American public, not indeed complicit in what we demonize?
“So when the case goes to court there is no doubt in anyone’s mind he’ll be spending a long time in prison. They won’t challenge everything at once… they can drip, drip, milk it that way”. His powerful Sinaloa Cartel has smuggled billions of dollars worth of drugs into the US.
Guzman faces drug trafficking charges in a clutch of U.S. states.
The home where he was recaptured Friday had been under surveillance for a month, the attorney general said.
After his first capture in Guatemala in June 1993, Guzman was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
He was on the run for 13 years before being held again in 2014.
The article’s publication follows news that Guzman had been in talks to produce a movie about his life and authorities were able to zero in on his whereabouts through his contacts with his lawyers and producers. Early Thursday a auto arrived, and authorities were able to determine that Guzman was inside, she said. Mexican marines pursued the wily kingpin through storm drains before intercepting his getaway in a hijacked vehicle.
Guzman also boasted about his drug operation: “I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world”.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was so enamoured of his own life story that after escaping from prison a second time last summer he put out feelers to Hollywood about turning it into a blockbuster biopic. 3, after he escaped.
“Since Guzman Loera has been recaptured, the beginning of the extradition proceedings should begin”, the office said in statement. Now that he is recapture, Mexico has to start processing the extradition requests anew, according to the law.
The official, who was not authorized to talk to the press and spoke on condition of anonymity, says even that is not likely because lawyers file appeals. He said that they are usually turned down, but each one means a judge has to schedule a hearing.
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It is expected that he will be extradited within six months.
