Mexican government officials are denying allegations by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s lawyers that the drug lord is being treated worse than Adolf Hitler would be in prison.
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“There is this myth about the visit that we made, my colleagues and I with El Chapo, that it was – as the Attorney General of Mexico is quoted – “essential” to his capture”, Penn said.
Vice News correspondent Danny Gold said he was never a fan of MR Penn’s journalism, “but me and every other journo would have compromised a whole lot more to get an interview with El Chapo”.
The special follows the hunt for the world’s most wanted fugitive, which ended successfully last Friday when Mexican authorities detained Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán following a raid by the Mexican navy at his secret hideaway.
Mexico’s drug lord and prison-breaker, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has now become a “model” for a USA clothes company, Mexican daily El Excelsior reported on Tuesday.
Asked about the images, Penn said: “I’ve got nothin’ to hide”.
Guzman was captured last week, six months after he vanished from a maximum-security prison through a meticulously built tunnel under his cell.
“Mr. Penn should be called to testify to respond about the stupidities he has said”. However, Mexican authorities claimed earlier this week that they are not directly investigating Penn but the whole situation. The Mexican government had photos of him at an airport, and an intelligence file depicting him en route to where he conducted his interview.
Guzman allegedly was looking to marry his two loves, Soccer and what the Mexican press euphemistically calls “entrepreneurship”.
In them, he tells the actress he does not drink much but that he will make an exception if she comes to meet him. “We’ll be able to sit down and I have a thousand questions for Sean”.
“Are you fearful for your life?”
A photograph of Sean Penn and Guzman shaking hands shows the cartel leader in a striking blue and grey patterned shirt, which LA shirt maker Barabas recognised as one of its creations.
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He said his intention when interviewing El Chapo was to write a piece that highlighted the failure of the worldwide war on drugs.
