He was arrested after meeting with Hollywood star Sean Penn in his remote mountaintop hideout in the Mexican state of Durango in early October, Mexico’s attorney general Arely Gomez said Monday. A face-to-face follow-up interview was not possible, but Penn questioned Guzman through messaging and video.
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Instant messages among Guzman, one of his lawyers and del Castillo published by local paper Milenio on Wednesday show that the kingpin initially had no idea who Penn was.
Penn’s article on Guzman was published late Saturday by Rolling Stone magazine, a day after the drug lord’s recapture. The telephone text exchanges were intercepted by Mexican authorities. Many expressed admiration and a longing for the next meeting, more than concern about the purported movie project.
“Now in terms of how an interview like that gets set up and journalistic ethics, I figure you’re probably in a better position to opine on that”, Obama told “Today” host Matt Lauer. He identified her identified in his chat or text account as “ermoza”, a misspelling of the Spanish word for “beautiful”.
You wouldn’t mistake the mustachioed druglord for the bearded, coiffed model.
His face beaming and looking “remarkably well-groomed” for a prison escapee, Penn said, Guzman bragged about the intricate nature of his drug empire.
And while most of us wouldn’t consider the expert escapee a trendsetter, the $128 shirts are now on back order, Esteghbal said: “Orders keep coming in, people really want that shirt!” I didn’t even know he was still around.
“I’m more excited about you than the story”. “I’d hope sooner rather than later”.
Del Castillo’s representatives did not respond to email requests to comment on the texts. I’m very excited about our story…
The leading possibilities appear to include San Diego, California, where the United States first filed charges against him in 1996; Chicago, where one of Guzman’s top lieutenants is already in custody and cooperating with authorities, and NY where Lynch was the top prosecutor before becoming the country’s top law enforcement official.
She was the one person who was able to broker the meeting between Penn and the drug lord.
As marines began firing there way into the property, Guzman used a secret doorway hidden below a mirror in an upstairs bedroom to escape.
A marine involved in the assault who gave a tour of the house to a reporter from the Mexican network Televisa said there were more people inside than expected and they were more heavily armed, including with rocket-propelled grenades and.
The explanation might simply have been infatuation – something that would not be out of character for Guzman. “What’s new about that?”
The legal challenge is not a new tactic for Guzman’s lawyers. The drug kingpin reportedly wanted del Castillo to handle the making of a biopic about his life.
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Guzman’s violent past stands in contrast to his portrayal in Penn’s article for “Rolling Stone.”
