Why A High-profile Hollywood Director Turned Down A Project About The Sinaloa Kingpin
... July 2015 and his capture in January 2016. Kate del Castillo, left, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, center, and Sean Penn. Reuters/Getty Images/Amanda Macias/Business Insider. Guzmán contacted Kate del Castillo, an Mexican actress best known for her portrayal of a woman cartel boss, after she expressed support for him on Twitter. She was the only person the Sinaloa chief trusted to guide the project. Sean Penn heard of del Castillo's connections to Guzmán through a mutual friend and contacted her about interviewing Guzmán. Penn was roundly excoriated for the uncritical nature of the interview, and he himself expressed " terrible regret " for failing to start a conversation about the drug war. The sordid details around the "El Chapo" movie also touched on other Sinaloa cartel members and Hollywood denizens. Mauricio Sanchez Garza , who's accused of money laundering on behalf of the cartel, was arrested in January 2016 came out of the investigation into Guzmán's efforts to produce his own biopic while on the lam. Sanchez Garza had his own nefarious silver-screen ambitions, however. He and a partner orchestrated a kidnapping scheme to force a business partner to sign over ...
Video Shows California Prisoners Offering Protection And Escape Help To Drug Lord 'el Chapo
... The You Tube video , which includes profanity, shows five men, whose faces were partially concealed with pieces of cloth, sunglasses and hats, standing inside a prison cell as they pledged loyalty to the notorious drug lord. “We are the hitmen who are going to take care of him,” one of the inmates says in Spanish. The video was shot in a privately operated prison under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, agency spokeswoman Jill Tyson said. “Upon learning of the video, BOP oversight staff on-site at the facility began working with the contractor to investigate the allegations of irregularities at the facility,” she said. According to the bureau’s website, a contracted correctional institution in Taft, Calif., is the only federal facility operated by a private corporation in the state. The low- to minimum-security facility in Kern County has 2,175 inmates. The men promised to help Guzman escape, saying, “We want to tell the people this: If you bring el señor here and if el señor asks us to free him, we are going to take him out immediately.”. The video began circulating online after Guzman was extradited from Mexico to New York on Jan. 19 to face drug ...
What Donald Trump And El Chapo Have In Common
... clearly had the opposite effect in the states. In exchange for El Chapo, we would like to hand over Donald Trump. #Freetrade. #Inauguration. — Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) January 20, 2017. Dread, confusion and sarcasm flooded the timelines of my American friends and family as the Trumps officially replaced the Obamas in the White House. But the more I learn about El Chapo’s reign of terror over México, the more it seems like The Donald is replacing him as the most notorious criminal in the free world. Both know what it takes to make Forbes’ “Most Powerful People” list, but the similarities don’t stop there. Neither has let a lack of education stop them from gaining and maintaining massive amounts of power and influence. According to CNN , El Chapo is semi-illiterate and dropped out of ...
Netflix, Univision Series 'el Chapo' Sets April Premier
... “El Chapo” Guzmán. The series will debut in April of 2017 (although an exact date hasn’t been set yet), first on Univision and then on Netflix. Guzmán’s exploits are known around the world, and since true crime shows are more popular than ever before, his story seemed like a natural fit. El Chapo will showcase the drug lord’s story, how he rose to power, how he evaded police and escaped prison twice, and just how much of an impact he’s really had on the world. El Chapo has been accused of being the mastermind behind behind one of the world’s biggest drug trafficking operations. He evaded authorities for decades and even escaped from Mexican maximum security prisons twice. His last escape came in 2015, when it was discovered that he dug a mile long tunnel under his cell. Today, El Chapo is facing 17 drug trafficking and money laundering counts thanks to more than $14 billion in drug sales in the U. S. and Canada. Univision President and Chief Content Officer Camila Jiménez ...
Forget El Chapo Guzman’s Escape, This Is The Most Audacious, Controversial Prison Break In The History Of Mexico
... El Chapo Guzman’s Escape, This Is The Most Audacious, Controversial Prison Break In The History Of Mexico. Elizabeth Gail. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has, for decades, been on both Mexico’s and America’s most wanted list. Presently in incarceration at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, he, in 2015, made headlines when he escaped from Altiplano prison in Mexico via a mile long tunnel. The prison break was incredibly embarrassing for the Mexican government, with President Enrique Peña Nieto vowing to put El Chapo back behind bars. #Breaking : NYPD Commissioner O'Nelill holds press conference on #El Chapo 's extradition. (Pic: NYPD) __link__/j ZHSo JEhq N. — World Aggregate News (@WAGGNews) January 20, 2017. That said, another prison break in Mexico rivals El Chapo Guzman’s in sheer audacity, and it was that of Joel David Kaplan, an American businessman. He and ...
El Chapo' Guzman Pleads Not Guilty In Us To 17 Counts
... on drug trafficking, murder and kidnapping charges, he was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in a maximum security prison before his multiple escapes. For years, the notorious cartel leader proved slippery, staying just ahead of the law. He is known for using intricate tunnel systems for both evading authorities and moving the massive quantities of drugs that made the Sinaloa cartel so powerful. Guzman's recapture in January 2016, after six months on the lam, represented a major success in what has been an embarrassing ordeal for Mexico. For many, "El Chapo" is a symbol of the Mexican government's corruption. In 2001, he escaped from a prison in Jalisco in a laundry cart. Guzman was apprehended in February 2014 and escaped from Altiplano prison in July 2015 by crawling through an opening in the shower area of his cell block leading to a mile-long tunnel. In August, Guzman's son was kidnapped from a Puerto Vallarta restaurant in what was perceived as an attempt to exploit the cartel's vulnerability. He was later freed. 'El Chapo' said drug trade would continue. The trafficking of heroin, marijuana, ...
How Secure Is Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo's New Home
... ran one of the world's biggest drug-trafficking operations, can expect to be kept in a special unit inside the drab 12-storey Metropolitan Correctional Centre, where such other high-profile, high-risk inmates as Gambino crime family boss John Gotti and several former close associates of Osama bin Laden awaited trial. "It's got extra security above and beyond what you would have in a restricted housing area," said Catherine Linaweaver, who served as the lockup's warden for 15 months before retiring in 2014. "There is no other unit in the Bureau of Prisons like the high-security unit in New York.". Federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing that "it is difficult to imagine another person with a greater risk of fleeing prosecution" than Guzman. Barricades that can stop a seven-tonne truck. The jail is sandwiched between federal prosecutors' offices and two federal courthouses and is ...
Lags In Us Jail Pledge Loyalty To 'el Chapo' After His Extradition To America
... is controlled, the warden I have bought, all the authorities have been bought.". The Federal Bureau of Prisons is probing the clip, which sees a number of jailbirds concealing their identities with scarfs, hats and sunglasses while offering their support to El Chapo. It is believed to have been filmed at Taft Correctional Institution, a privately run nick in California - where state prosecutors want El Chapo on drug distribution charges. The 59-year-old, who once infamously fled prison by riding a motorbike through a specially dug escape tunnel, also faces counts of murder and money laundering in Texas. The video is believed to have been filmed at Taft Correctional Institution, a privately run jail in California (Photo: You Tube/Gerardo Calderon). Read More. He is currently languishing in Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center after arriving in New York amid super tight security following his extradition from Mexico earlier this month. The Sinaloa drug cartel leader was recaptured after escaping prison in January last year. The fugitive was caught after a fierce gun battle in Los Mochis, a city in northern Sinaloa, during which five of his men were ...
Video Shows Calif. Prisoners Offering Protection, Escape Help To 'el Chapo
... spokeswoman Jill Tyson said. “Upon learning of the video, BOP oversight staff on-site at the facility began working with the contractor to investigate the allegations of irregularities at the facility,” she said. According to the bureau’s website, a contracted correctional institution in Taft is the only facility operated by a private corporation. The low- to minimum-security facility in Kern County has 2,175 federal inmates. The men promised to help Guzman escape, saying: “We want to tell the people this: If you bring ‘el senor’ here and if ‘el senor’ asks us to free him, we are going to take him out immediately.”. The video began circulating online after Guzman was extradited from Mexico to New York on Jan. 19 to face drug trafficking, murder, money laundering and other charges in six separate indictments. Guzman, who lead one of the world’s most powerful drug trafficking organizations, was responsible for funneling cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and into the United States. Among the indictments, the Sinaloa cartel leader faces charges of ...
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