By visiting with a man who was wanted in both the United States and Mexico, the actor has stirred up significant ethical – and legal – questions.
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Showing just why he is nicknamed Shorty, the world’s most powerful drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman poses for a new prison mugshot after being recaptured. Mexican marines had raided the house.
Alfredo Corchado, longtime Mexico City bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News and a member of the faculty of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State U., was at first impressed by Penn’s scoop, but has become dubious over its concessions.
Beginning Sunday, captured drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will be moved from cell to cell as a way to ensure that he won’t escape a Mexican prison, a senior Mexican government official told CNN on Wednesday.
In the article, Penn said he was not allowed to record his in-person conversation with Guzman.
He added that the Mexican government will present a “diplomatic note” to USA authorities so that no other US jurisdiction will be able to seek the death penalty, which is outlawed in Mexico, against the extradited drug lord. In the meantime, they appear to be taking extraordinary measure to prevent a third escape.
Sanchez, however, did criticize what he said were attempts to glorify drug traffickers.
Asked about scrutiny of his controversial meeting with the fugitive drug lord at a hideout in rural Mexico, Penn on Monday would only say: “I’ve got nothin’ to hide”.
He is being held at Altiplano prison in Almoloya de Juarez – the same prison he escaped from in July.
“EL CHAPO GUZMAN WEARING BARABAS SHIRT!”, the company posted on its Facebook page. He left the mountain.
Later that month, Pruitt warned during an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation that if the government continues to monitor and interfere with newsgathering activities, “the people of the United States will only know what the government wants them to know, and that’s not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment”.
Armoured vehicles and light tanks sit outside the jail’s walls and Mexican security forces guard sand-bagged checkpoints on surrounding roads. “The other factor: there were, from the time of the escape, 2,500 people from various security agencies exclusively dedicated…to mount a successful operation”. Mexican authorities have also released video of the violent shootout that helped bring Guzman to justice, reports CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez.
News was able to tour the safe house Mexican authorities raided last Friday. “The only way was by saturating the area where he was”. You are not aiding and abetting a criminal to do anything if all you do is go and talk to him. He knew that was going to make him vulnerable, but he had no choice.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by soldiers during a presentation at the hangar belonging to the office of the Attorney General in Mexico City, Mexico January 8, 2016.
Del Castillo’s representatives reportedly did not comment on the texts.
Penn acknowledged the ethics involved in interviewing a known fugitive – he wrote that he takes “no pride in keeping secrets that may be perceived as protecting criminals” – but the aftermath of the story has instead focused on the agreement to submit the story to Guzman for his approval before publication.
Jose Alfonso Carreon was the deputy director of the high-security jail in Tepic, similar to the one which Guzman escaped from, between 2000 and 2012.
The Times published Duranty’s dispatches – which used official statements from Stalin as his sole source – only after his work had been vetted by Soviet censors.
“They paint them as heroes, and attractive and generous”, Sanchez said.
In the end, the ex-official attributed Guzman’s capture to the drug lord “losing his footing”. But the federal official said that action had proved “very useful” in the hunt, suggesting it was part of the plan.
Del Castillo responds in kind. In the article, Penn said Guzman requested no changes.
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“He fell in love with his own legend”, the ex-official said.
