![]() ![]() Chapo: Wouldn’t it be cool if you started to traffic in goodness? With cures for diseases, with food for children in the street, with alcohol for nursing homes. 55 on its Most Powerful People list.ĭel Castillo’s online post addresses the drug lord directly: He is worth about $1 billion, according to Forbes Magazine, which began listing the drug kingpin on its billionaires list in 2009. Ghastly toll in 2011 Mexico drug violence: 13,000 killed government announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction. authorities in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Guzman, who is accused of running a major network that distributes cocaine and heroin, has been indicted by U.S. But he decided that he wanted to collaborate with del Castillo, and he began corresponding with her through handwritten letters and BlackBerry messages.Įl Chapo’s communication with del Castillo continued even after his escape, Penn wrote, and that sparked the conversations that led to their meeting.ĭel Castillo starred as a drug trafficker in Telemundo’s popular prime-time soap opera “La Reina del Sur” (“The Queen of the South”) and also played Mexican crime boss Pilar Zuazo on the Showtime series “Weeds.” “It perhaps should have come as no surprise that this homegrown icon of entertainment would catch the interest of a singular fan and fugitive from Sinaloa,” Penn wrote.Īccording to Penn, once El Chapo was arrested in 2014, Hollywood types reached out to the imprisoned cartel boss. In Penn’s article, published Saturday, he says that the Sinaloa cartel chief sent del Castillo flowers to thank for her online post though the bouquet never reached her. The online post, which called for Guzman to “traffic in love,” sparked controversy in Mexico over the actress’s perceived support of the drug lord.Īpparently, her comments also caught the attention of Guzman himself. The others sometimes are worse criminals, and have numbed us, and hide everything from us,” she said. “Someone like that, at least we know who he is, we know what he does, we know what his profession is. In an interview last year, del Castillo told CNN en Español that her message was a criticism of Mexican political leaders rather than a compliment to Guzman. Guzman should consider using his influence for the good of Mexico, she wrote. “Today I believe more in El Chapo Guzman than in the governments that hide the truth from me even though it is painful,” del Castillo said in a message linked to her Twitter account in 2012. Kate del Castillo, an outspoken Mexican and American actress who cemented her fame with portrayals of crime bosses on television, posted a message online four years ago. it was terrible.Without her help, Sean Penn says he never could have arranged a secret meeting with cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.Īnd it all started with a tweet, the actor claims in a Rolling Stone article he wrote about the encounter. It’s going to be the Mexican government,” Del Castillo said on “Red Table Talk.” “I would take back that my parents and my family and all my friends they were scrutinized. “Everybody here knows that if something happens to me or my family, it’s not el cartel. And risked my life and my parents’ life and my sister’s life and everybody surrounding me.”ĭel Castillo had previously communicated with the convicted drug trafficker after posting a controversial 2012 tweet declaring that she believed “more in El Chapo Guzmán” than “governments that hide truths from me,” to illustrate her disillusion with the Mexican government. Penn not only threw her under the bus, the TV star said, “he used me as a bait, and then he never protected me. To this day, Del Castillo said she has “no savings” because “everything has gone to paying lawyers and still paying the Mexican government.” witness protection program - all while pregnant with the child of a onetime lover whose death she had personally ordered.Īs a result, Del Castillo was forced to leave her family and career in Mexico behind “to avoid persecution,” as Gloria Estefan put it. The last time the world saw notorious drug trafficker Teresa Mendoza, she had narrowly evaded capture by Spanish police, survived a shootout that resulted in the death of her most loyal associate, publicly testified over the narcotrafficking roots of a prominent Mexican politician, then disappeared into the clutches of the U.S. Entertainment & Arts Kate del Castillo on how El Chapo made her broke and her return as TV drug lord ‘La Reina’
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