The extradition bid comes as new details about Guzman’s surprise meeting with Sean Penn in October emerged, with a newspaper publishing pictures apparently showing that the U.S. actor was monitored by the authorities.
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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. She reportedly set up the meeting between Penn and Guzman.
The actor, 56, flew to a remote jungle compund in October to interview the then fugitive for a Rolling Stone magazine article and has since faced a barrage of criticism for not informing officials of his location.
“In a way, yes, it does complicate it (his defence)”. Badillo said he was certain his client would not have said that.
“He (Guzman) could not have made these claims…” That Guzman has a weakness for women?
Where’s the proof? Where’s the audio? “So it is, the power of a Guzman face”, the article reads.
“We are planning to do an interview about his experience and what happened to him and I look forward to that, as soon as all the things can be worked out”, Rose said.
Sean Penn says that a couple of soldiers were intimidated when they saw he was traveling with Alfredo Guzman, ‘El Chapo’s son.
“It poses a lot of very interesting questions, both for him (Penn) and for others involved in this…so-called interview”, McDonough told CNN.
Both she and Penn are now rumored to be under investigation by the Mexican government. Somehow, in all his words, Penn managed not to include their voices, or of those who live in the drug war zone where he wrote that Guzman is a “Robin Hood-like figure”.
In messages between Guzman and his attorney, who facilitated the phone exchanges with Del Castillo, the lawyer told the drug lord about the 2003 film “21 Grams”. Guzman is wanted in a half-dozen USA states. He rejected the government’s assertion that Guzman was being moved regularly from cell to cell as a security precaution.
A senior Obama administration official told television news shows on Sunday morning that Guzman’s boasting about his heroin empire in the interview was “maddening”. Badillo filed seven previously during Guzman’s incarceration and after his escape.
Copies of TV episodes of “La Reina de Sur”, del Castillo’s most famous role, portraying a fictional trafficker, were found in the safehouse Guzman was hiding in prior to his capture.
He declined to elaborate on his wider legal defence strategy, which is aimed at avoiding Guzman’s extradition to the United States, where he is wanted on an array of charges.
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Del Castillo took to Twitter to thank her supporters and wrote: “Not surprisingly many have chosen to make up items they think will make good stories and that aren’t truthful”. Another of his lawyers said reports the two were close were “speculation”.
