US President Barack Obama sidestepped the controversy today, refusing to be drawn on Penn’s interview with El Chapo.
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Guzman is leader of the Sinaloa crime group.
Guzman faces extradition to the USA to face drug trafficking charges. Metal rods were installed under a cell floor to prevent another tunnel dig. Federal police captured him Friday after a gun battle. They were rejected on the grounds that Guzman was a wanted man, Reuters reported.
Mexico’s willingness to extradite Guzman is a sharp turnaround from the last time he was captured in 2014, when then-Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said the extradition would happen only after he finished his sentence in Mexico in “300 or 400 years”.
The prisoner could be sent to one of several US cities for trial, including NY or Chicago.
Well, let that be a lesson to all of you: if you’re a notorious drug dealer on the run after escaping from prison, don’t grant interviews to Sean Penn. “I was appalled by his bragging to the interviewers in Rolling Stone that he moves more heroin than anyone in the world”.
Also included in the series of photographs is a shot of what appears to be one of the private planes that Penn and del Castillo used to get to the interview.
It is thought that the meeting with Penn helped the security forces to locate Guzman. Some Americans denounced the interview.
Laurie Levenson, a Loyola Law School professor and former federal prosecutor, compared Penn’s legal situation to those of the journalists who conducted interviews with Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked documents. “I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats”.
Penn’s long and often rambling essay, widely mocked on social media, included comments from Guzman on everything from his childhood to his thoughts on the drug trade.
The drug lord is now at the Altiplano Prison where he escaped in July. Even though there’s no accurate information about an upcoming film about the drug lord’s life.
Five of El Chapo’s associates died in the shootout. One Mexican soldier was wounded.
Guzman is not seen in the footage, having escaped through the tunnels.
He was first arrested in Guatemala in 1993 and extradited to Mexico. It led to the city s storm drain system, but the drug lord and his security chief were caught later after they came out of a manhole and stole a auto. Kathleen Struck was the editor. According to CNN, “Guzman is included in at least seven indictments in various us jurisdictions”. Or should he serve his sentence in Mexico?
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