Joaquin Guzman Loera 2016: Why El Chapo Met With Actor Sean Penn [VIDEO]
Last Friday, Mexican officials announced the capture of one of the notorious drug lords, Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as El Chapo. And now Rolling Stone finally reveals the actor who interviewed El Chapo was Sean Penn himself.
According to the mag, the two-time Oscar winner sat down with El Chapo for the magazine’s October issue while he was on the run with authorities. It was also revealed that the reason El Chapo contacted actors and producers for the reason that he was planning to make a movie of his life.
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“We sit within quietude of fortified walls that are old New York hotel construction, when walls were walls, and telephones were usable without a Ph.D,” Sean Penn wrote. “We quietly make our plans, sensitive to the paradox that also in our hotel is President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico. Espinoza and I leave the room to get outside the hotel, breathe in the fall air and walk the five blocks to a Japanese restaurant, where we'll meet up with our colleague El Alto Garcia.”
While the interview lasted for several sessions, Rolling Stone reveals in one session, which was held over dinner, subsequent talks reportedly took place via BlackBerry Messenger and in a video delivered by courier. In one video correspondence, Guzman says that evading the authorities had become normal for him.
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“My head is swimming, labeling TracPhones (burners), one per contact, one per day, destroy, burn, buy, balancing levels of encryption, mirroring through Blackphones, anonymous e-mail addresses, unsent messages accessed in draft form,” the 55-year-old actor recalled. “It's a clandestine horror show for the single most technologically illiterate man left standing.”
According to Entertainment Tonight, it is not known whether Penn’s contact with Guzman led to his arrest, Penn writes, "there is no question in my mind but that DEA and the Mexican government are tracking our movements,” referring to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.
Considered as one of the most wanted fugitives, El Chapo has escaped the jail twice. He also reveals in his interview with Penn new details explaining that the engineers who designed the mile-long, $1 million tunnel he used to disappear had been flown to Germany for specialized training.
