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“El Chapo” disappeared from Mexico’s highest security prison last summer, escaping via a mile-long tunnel that some said cost $1 million to build. Penn wrote in the article that the drug lord hired German engineers to build the tunnel. So, you know…that’s probably a great idea.
In this Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 photo, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is made to face the press as he’s escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by soldiers and marines at a federal hangar in Mexico City.
Some former federal prosecutors and prominent extradition lawyers say Lynch’s close ties to the Brooklyn office could give it an edge as a trial venue, but others say they could work against Brooklyn because she might not want to be perceived as favoring her former colleagues.
“That’s so moving that you say you’ll take care of me – no one has ever told me they would care for me, thank you!”
Carlos Barragan y Salvatierra, a professor of law at Mexico’s National University, said there would be little ground to prosecute Penn or Del Castillo, unless money or gifts changed hands.
It has emerged that Mexico has beefed up security out of concerns that the kingpin may escape from the Altiplano prison for a third time.
Seventeen elite unit Mexican Marines launched their assault on the house in the city of Los Mochis at 4:40 a.m., “Primero Noticias” said.
Incredible GoPro footage takes you inside the gunfire-heavy raid that ended drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s six months on the run.
The mag first published the text of Penn’s exclusive interview with El Chapo this past Saturday, January 9, a day after the kingpin was recaptured by authorities after a shoot-out in a safe house in the residential coastal town of Los Mochis, Sinaloa.
Authorities have taken extraordinary steps to prevent Guzman from escaping from the Altiplano prison for a second time while they seek to extradite him to the United States. Both she and Penn are now rumored to be under investigation by the Mexican government.
He later asks his lawyers to tell him what movies Penn has appeared in. “I’d seen plenty of video and graphic photography of those beheaded, exploded, dismembered or bullet-riddled innocents, activists, courageous journalists and cartel enemies alike”, remarked the actor.
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Penn makes it clear in his Rolling Stone interview that del Castillo was the key instigator of the meeting. The only interview the drug lord is believed to have given in decades was brokered with the help of the Mexican television star Kate del Castillo.
