MEXICAN authorities are claiming that they were able to locate the notorious drug boss El Chapo in the Mexican jungle after actor Sean Penn went to interview him for Rolling Stone magazine.
El Chapo is the violent boss of one of the world’s largest drug cartels. He lives in a world strewn with the dead bodies of his rivals, law enforcement officials, ex-friends, and corrupt politicians.
El Chapo escaped from a Mexican prison through a hole in his cell shower last year, and Mexican authorities have been saying they couldn’t find him.
Movie star Penn found him easily enough, however.
In the article in Rolling Stone, Penn says he made contact with El Chapo through a stunning Mexican starlet named Kate del Castillo, who has been friendly with El Chapo since he escaped from prison.
El Chapo wants Kate to star in a movie about his life.
Penn flew to Mexico in October, and says there were signs during his visit that corruption in the Mexican system was helping keep El Chapo free.
He wasn’t blindfolded for his trip into the jungle, but he did have to give up his mobile phone.
Penn says El Chapo bragged to him about being the world’s biggest drug dealer, saying: “I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world. I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats.”
Penn’s article includes a photograph of the actor and the drug lord shaking hands, which appeared on Rolling Stone’s website last night.
Penn says he asked for the selfie for verification purposes. He shook hands with El Chapo so people would know it wasn’t photoshopped.
The article makes for extraordinary reading. Penn spends most of the interview talking about himself. He says he accidently farted in El Chapo’s presence; takes his ‘dick’ out for a pee in the bushes; and happily drinks a particular brand of tequila that Kate is paid to promote.
Penn has not yet commented about the interview, but in another surreal twist, he turned up at a fundraising dinner for Haiti last night, with ex-wife Madonna on his arm.
Madonna was quoted saying she had loved Penn since the day she laid eyes on him “but I wish you’d give up smoking” – cigarettes being the drug to which Penn is hopelessly addicted.
