Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman capture: any downside risks for Penn et al?

Sean Penn met with a drug lord who is responsible for so many deaths, and apparently El Chapo has a bigger drug business than what Pablo Escobar had.

Given Penn met a person on the run and responsible for so much suffering, Penn along with the other people involved should face consequences, there are questions, were they going to tell the authorities where the fugitive was and if they hadn't or had no intention then surely they broke a law by keeping concealed the location of a wanted man.

There should be no free ride for the people involved, if any of us had been in contact with one of the most wanted men in the world, we would be thrown in jail for not telling the authorities where he was.

Accessory after the fact.

El Chapo sounds like something you'd call your dick

Season 2 of Narcos right there.

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It sounds like too big a stretch.. I'd never believe it. Like Pablo meets up with Michael Douglas for a chat and an interview while escaping la catedral.

I have it on good authority that Blackie and Rick Moranis were pen pals.

But you didn't hear that from me.

This whole thing is really bizarre. Why would El Chapo, a man who is on the run, agree to meet a famous actor and actress. An actress who due to her previous comments supporting El Chapo could be under surveillance and who would be well known, and an actor who is probably tracked by authorities as well.

According to Sean Penn:

It also occurs to me, once again, that I might be under the eyes of Mexican intelligence or the DEA.

You think?

But the heat of enforcement and surveillance had become extreme. I even received a credible tip that the DEA had indeed become aware of our journey to Mexico.

Eh, yeah, Sean Penn has met Hugo Chavez among others. I don't know if they have him under full-time surveillance but it's safe to say they know everytime he gets on a plane, especially to another country. With an actress with links to the cartel. He shouldn't need a credible tip to know that he's been tracked.

It's bizarre that Penn and the Mexican actress would agree to go, knowing that them going to meet El Chapo together could lead to him been caught. But it's even stranger that El Chapo agreed to meet them. For all he knows Penn could have been sent as a trap to find El Chapo (knowingly or not). Wasn't very smart for any of them. It's also a waste of time given the interview was terrible and was never good enough to be posted in a respectable magazine.

How has your family life changed from then to now?
Very good – my children, my brothers, my nephews. We all get along well, very normal. Very good.

Intriguing stuff. Somehow from this he concludes:

But perhaps, at least, retrieved a glimpse from the other side, and what is for me an affirmation of the dumb-show of demonization that has demanded such an extraordinary focus of assets toward the capture or killing of any one individual black hat.

That may or may not be true but nothing in the article could possibly affirm it.

I'm not criticizing Penn for wanting to meet El Chapo, but in the end all it was a waste of time. If Penn is not prosecuted for withholding information for a fugitive then it's fair to say he was used from the start by the US authorities to find El Chapo.

A Primal Nut wrote: »

This whole thing is really bizarre. Why would El Chapo, a man who is on the run, agree to meet a famous actor and actress. An actress who due to her previous comments supporting El Chapo could be under surveillance and who would be well known, and an actor who is probably tracked by authorities as well.

According to Sean Penn:



You think?



Eh, yeah, Sean Penn has met Hugo Chavez among others. I don't know if they have him under full-time surveillance but it's safe to say they know everytime he gets on a plane, especially to another country. With an actress with links to the cartel. He shouldn't need a credible tip to know that he's been tracked.

It's bizarre that Penn and the Mexican actress would agree to go, knowing that them going to meet El Chapo together could lead to him been caught. But it's even stranger that El Chapo agreed to meet them. For all he knows Penn could have been sent as a trap to find El Chapo (knowingly or not). Wasn't very smart for any of them. It's also a waste of time given the interview was terrible and was never good enough to be posted in a respectable magazine.



Intriguing stuff. Somehow from this he concludes:

But perhaps, at least, retrieved a glimpse from the other side, and what is for me an affirmation of the dumb-show of demonization that has demanded such an extraordinary focus of assets toward the capture or killing of any one individual black hat.

That may or may not be true but nothing in the article could possibly affirm it.

I'm not criticizing Penn for wanting to meet El Chapo, but in the end all it was a waste of time. If Penn is not prosecuted for withholding information for a fugitive then it's fair to say he was used from the start by the US authorities to find El Chapo.

god forbid that one of the worlds leading drug barons be demonised. when will the madness ever stop.