CBS: Sean Penn has "a terrible regret" about "El Chapo" meeting
Actor Sean Penn is breaking his silence about his trip to Mexico to meet notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. In an interview for this Sunday's "60 Minutes," Penn spoke to "CBS This Morning" co-host Charlie Rose Thursday night in Santa Monica to talk about his seven hours with Guzman.
The cartel leader was re-captured a week ago, and Penn made headlines the following day when Rolling Stone published his account of visiting the kingpin in hiding last October.
"There is this myth about the visit that we made, my colleagues and I with El Chapo, that it was -- as the Attorney General of Mexico is quoted -- 'essential' to his capture," Penn said. "We had met with him many weeks earlier...on October 2nd, in a place nowhere near where he was captured."
Update: Sean Penn tells ‘60 Minutes’ his ‘El Chapo’ mission ‘failed’ (AP)
WNU Editor: I think I understand why Charlize Theron left him .... Charlize Theron & Sean Penn: Why She Broke Their Engagement (Hollywood Life).
Update #2: The fallout from that meeting is still continuing .... How Mexico secretly launched a crackdown after Penn met ‘El Chapo’ (Washington Post)
2 comments:
WNU Editor,
"journalists about Sean Penn’s Chapo Guzmán story has continued over two days now. As is typical of press frenzies, it is largely divorced from the actual details involved.
So I’d like to revisit the question of what Penn may have withheld from his story — because the press is frenzying over the wrong thing."
"But there is one detail, in addition to the locations, that Penn did withhold, purportedly at the request of Chapo, one which I haven’t seen any participant in the press frenzy complain about.
He cites (but asks me not to name in print) a host of corrupt major corporations, both within Mexico and abroad. He notes with delighted disdain several through which his money has been laundered, and who take their own cynical slice of the narco pie."
https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/01/12/the-chapo-secrets-the-press-should-be-squealing-about/#comments
"Spiny and El Alto probably share Chapo’s desire to keep those names out of print, in part because they’re part of the power structure that the banks bolster, in part because banks sometimes narc on their customers to save their own hides.
But it’s funny how the press, too, seems uninterested in learning the names of the banks that continue to prop up both our own country’s power structure as well as facilitate traffickers like Guzmán."
I wonder if "Spiny" and "El Alto" work for HSBC?
Sean Penn is a rat
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