In a abrupt email barter with The Associated Press, Penn aswell absolved criticism over his account with the fugitive, who was captured on Friday, a day afore Penn's 10,000-word adventure was appear in Rolling Stone magazine.
Mexican admiral accept said that contacts amid Guzman's attorneys and Penn and extra Kate del Castillo helped them clue down the avoiding and they raided his cover in rural Durango accompaniment a few canicule afterwards their 2 October meeting. Guzman evaded authorities then, but was assuredly captured afterwards a shootout Friday in the Pacific bank accompaniment of Sinaloa.
Elaborate aegis precautions
Penn wrote in the Rolling Stone commodity of busy aegis precautions, including switching phones. As he flew to Mexico for the meeting, he wrote, "I see no spying eyes, but I accept they are there."
He was appropriate — and they had allegedly been afterward del Castillo for months based on contacts with Guzman's lawyers.
The Mexican bi-weekly El Universal appear 10 images Monday that appeared to appearance Penn getting monitored as he accustomed in Mexico.
In the photographs, Penn, cutting aphotic glasses and a baseball cap, is apparent accession with del Castillo at an airport, again at a hotel, and greeting the men who allegedly took them to a baby airstrip, from which they flew to the boscage affected to accommodated Guzman. The bi-weekly said the photos were allotment of a Mexican government intelligence book it had obtained.
Asked about the images Monday, Penn would alone say: "I've got nothin' to hide."
The amateur aswell shrugged off a advancement that he was "taking hits" for accordant to abide his commodity to Guzman above-mentioned to advertisement by Rolling Stone.
"No, you're account hits," he said in the email barter with the AP. In the article, Penn said Guzman requested no changes.
Penn fatigued that he doesn't anticipate his communications were tracked, and in an account with a bounded radio station, Mexican Advocate General Arely Gomez said that Mexican board were afterward the movements of one of Guzman's lawyers, not necessarily Penn or del Castillo.
Asked whether Penn or del Castillo were beneath investigation, Gomez said a "new line" of analysis had been opened that could cover them or Guzman's lawyers, and could absorb "covering up" for Guzman "or something bigger."
In an commodity accompanying the photos, El Universal said Mexican agents were acquainted of and afterward del Castillo's contacts with Guzman's attorneys back at atomic June. Del Castillo has not commented, but Penn wrote in Rolling Stone that Guzman was absorbed in accepting a cine fabricated of his activity and capital del Castillo, who had portrayed a biologic baron in a Mexican television series, complex in the project.
Known for befriending advocate leaders
It was not Penn's aboriginal attack into Latin American activity and politics. The amateur has become accepted in the arena for befriending advocate leaders, including backward Venezuelan Admiral Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales in Bolivia. In 2008, he interviewed Admiral Raul Castro for The Nation just afterwards Barack Obama was adopted U.S. admiral in what was billed as the Cuban leaders' aboriginal account with a adopted journalist. He has aswell been broadly hailed for the alms he founded in Haiti afterwards its adverse 2010 earthquake.
Guzman's abduction came six months afterwards his affecting escape through a mile-long adit he dug from his corpuscle at the maximum-security Altiplano prison, west of Mexico City.
A cine based about on that beauteous escapade was appointed to admission Sunday in Mexico. Originally titled: Chapo: The escape of the century, the name was afflicted Monday to Capo: The escape of the century, for what administrator Axel Uriegas said were assembly reasons.
Monday evening, Mexican Admiral Enrique Pena Nieto referenced Guzman's abduction in a abbreviate new year's bulletin to the nation.
"The apprehension of the world's a lot of capital bent is a acclaim to the allocation of our institutions in favour of aegis and the aphorism of law," Pena Nieto said.
"With this action, 98 of the 122 a lot of alarming abyss no best present a blackmail to association and we are traveling for all of them."
Extradition action started
Mexico has amorphous the action of extraditing Guzman to the United States, area he faces drug-trafficking charges, but that could yield "a year or longer" because of acknowledged challenges, said the arch of Mexico's displacement office, Manuel Merino. He cited one displacement case that took six years.
In the meantime, Guzman, who faces drug-trafficking and organized abomination accuse in Mexico, was getting captivated at the aforementioned bastille he able from in July. A Mexican aegis official, speaking on action of anonymity because he was not authorised to allege to the media, said the biologic aristocrat is getting captivated in a altered corpuscle and that the adit he congenital and the corpuscle he able from had been destroyed.
On Monday, the bastille was belted by soldiers, some benumbed in armoured cadre carrier, as able-bodied as marines and federal police.
Guzman's able Sinaloa bunch smuggles multi-ton shipments of cocaine and marijuana as able-bodied as accomplishment and alteration methamphetamines and heroin, mostly to the U.S. He is capital in several U.S. states.
Guzman's advocate Juan Pablo Badillo has said the aegis has already filed six motions to claiming displacement requests.
Badillo said that his applicant shouldn't be extradited to the U.S. because "our country have to account civic sovereignty, the ascendancy of its institutions to admit justice."
In the account in Rolling Stone, Guzman dedicated his role as the arch of the world's better drug-trafficking organisation, abhorrent for bags of killings.
When asked if he is to accusation for top addiction rates, he responded: "No, that is false, because the day I don't exist, it's not traveling to abatement in any way at all."
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