The bright blue and gray collared shirt with stripes and designs can be seen in the photo posted in a controversial Rolling Stone article by Penn in which the Hollywood actor and director describes a meeting with the drug lord in the Mexican jungle.
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On Wednesday, the website was back up, with side-by-side photos of the Guzman-Penn meeting, and a handsomely coiffed male model in the same Barabas shirt.
Mexican actress Kate del Castillo was also present in the meeting. The company advertised it alongside Guzman’s picture, with the slogan “Most Wanted…”
During his previous 17 month stint behind bars, Guzman asked his lawyers to begin the process of trade-marking his name with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola said.
But he also highlighted the extraordinary measures taken to protect Guzman, including flying Penn and his team aboard a plane that had a device that jams radar signals.
“I am more excited about you than the [movie] script”, El Chapo told Del Castillo. “I will take better care of you than I do of my own eyes”.
Kate del Castillo had been contacted by Guzman’s lawyers years earlier after she had addressed Guzman in an open letter asking him to stop trafficking in drugs and start “trafficking in love” instead.
There’s often politicking involved in these decisions, and deference is sometimes paid to the office that filed its case first, said Marcos Jimenez, a former US attorney in Miami who oversaw drug cases involving extradited defendants.
Two government officials told AFP that the text messages leaked to Milenio were authentic. “We very much regret the acts of any citizen who collaborates with organized crime, because many times drug traffickers have been stereotyped as people who have their good side, or who in some way do good things”.
Guzman’s capture on Friday in his native Sinaloa state was huge news.
“Thank you for your support over the past days”.
“I’m more excited about you than the story”.
Federal officials who were not authorized to be quoted by name said that a significant part of the 2,500-strong force hunting the drug lord were soldiers sent into the mountains where he was hiding, to set up a security perimeter. The 43-year-old actress, who starred in the 2011 show “La Reina del Sur” (“The Queen of the South”), had a relatively scandal-free career until she directed tweets at Guzman in February 2012. “Stay calm, buddy”, one marine told him.
The messages provide a new window into the mysterious relationship between the then-fugitive and Del Castillo, who brokered the get-together between Guzman and Penn – even though the fugitive appeared to know little about the actor.
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Guzman’s powerful Sinaloa cartel smuggles multi-ton shipments of cocaine and marijuana as well as manufacturing and transporting methamphetamines and heroin, mostly to the U.S. He is wanted in several U.S. states.
