If he weren’t being kept incommunicado in Mexico’s Altiplano prison, El Chapo could be making a bit of money on the side as a fashion model.
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El Chapo was not arrested at the hotel, he snuck out through a secret compartment located behind a mirror, went through a tunnel, and then stole a vehicle before being captured. The messages reveal a doting relationship between her and Chapo.
It could be years before Mexico is able to follow through on its promise to extradite notorious narcotrafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States.
Instead, previously intercepted communications between Del Castillo and Guzman’s lawyers were key – authorities knew about the movie plans and were closing on him well before Penn, on assignment for Rolling Stone, accompanied Del Castillo to the meeting she arranged, said Vigil, who was briefed. Such programs harvest keystrokes, voice calls, emails and text messages.
The tequila in question is Kate del Castillo’s own brand, Honor del Castillo Reflexion blanco (it will soon debut in the U.S.), which she promised to share with the legendary leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
On January 10, Breitbart Texas’ Ildefonso Ortiz spoke with a retired senior level USA intelligence official working in Mexico and reported that Guzman and Del Castillo had been flirting from the beginning. El Universal also reports that the October meeting helped lead authorities to El Chapo’s hideout and they launched a raid just days later, but Guzman escaped, injuring his leg in the process.
Mexican officials had long rejected USA extradition appeals, but have changed their stance in the wake of Guzman’s humiliating breakout, the second time he’d managed to flee a Mexican prison. He faces charges of extortion and money laundering.
He was pictured wearing the Barabas shirt in a photo with Penn that accompanied the actor’s recent Rolling Stone magazine article about the fugitive.
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Penn also writes how El Chapo walks del Castillo to her cabin where she is going to spent the night and comes straight back. His successors, beneficiaries of the El Chapo takedown, would do well to keep a lower, more faceless profile. He was shipped the next year to Panama, where he remains imprisoned.
