El Jerko! Sean Penn Secretly Met With Fugitive Drug Lord El Chapo

At least actor Sean Penn recognizes his true worth as a journalist.

As he noted in his Rolling Stone piece on meeting and (sort of) interviewing fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, he does not ask for money for his (sort of) journalism.

He's not a journalist, but he plays one in Rolling Stone, to paraphrase an old TV commercial. Of course, as an overpaid actor, he can afford to forgo payment.  

Laura Italiano at the New York Post takes Penn to task.

 El Chapo, meet El Jerko.
Hollywood blowhard Sean Penn secretly met, interviewed, and posed for grip-and-smirk selfies with murderous druglord Joaquin Guzman Loera — even as the world’s most-wanted fugitive continued to elude authorities in the months after tunneling out of a Mexican prison. 

“I don’t want to be portrayed as a nun,” El Chapo says in the interview. Nevertheless, to gain access to the kingpin’s secret jungle hideout, Penn agreed that Guzman would have the final edit of the resulting story.

Penn also agreed not to alert authorities to the killer’s whereabouts. Still, Guzman’s capture in a dramatic police shootout Friday came as a direct result of Mexican officials tracking their contacts, authorities there said.

And Mexican officials now are investigating Penn and actress Kate del Castillo, who traveled with the actor to visit the vile drug lord, ABC News reported. 

... In breathless, first-person prose, Penn marvels over El Chapo’s humble, hardscrabble childhood spent harvesting in the drug fields of Sinaloa state.

Scant mention is made of the river of blood in El Chapo’s wake, and none at all of his alleged assassinations of Mexican officials and police. Guzman is credited with responsibility for tens of thousands of deaths of rivals, informants and officials in Mexico and the US, his biggest market.

... But Penn was not afraid.

“I’d offered myself to experiences beyond my control in numerous countries of war, terror, corruption and disaster,” he assures the reader. 

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://nypost.com/2016/01/09/el-chapo-met-sean-penn-before-his-capture-rolling-stone/  

Note To Penn & Rolling Stone editors: DEA stands for Drug Enforcement Administration, and not as Penn writes, the Drug Enforcement Agency.  

DEA Knew Mexican Drug Lord Had Escape Plan

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the DEA knew of the Mexican drug lord Guzman's escape plans and warned Mexican authorities.

WASHINGTON - The weekend disappearance of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman from a maximum security prison should have come as little surprise to Mexican authorities: The Drug Enforcement Administration had alerted them 16 months ago about several plans to escape.

Mexico's most notorious drug trafficker began plotting to break out almost immediately after his recapture at a seaside resort in February 2014. Internal DEA documents obtained by the Associated Press revealed that drug agents first got information in March 2014 that various Guzman family members and drug-world associates were considering "potential operations to free Guzman."

Mexico's Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said late yesterday that authorities were never informed "in that respect," referring to previous escape plans. He added that U.S. counterparts also said they didn't know where the escape information in the AP story came from.

But a U.S. official briefed on the investigation confirmed to the AP that the Mexican authorities were alerted about the plots. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose details.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20150714_DEA_knew_drug_lord_had_escape_plan.html  

DEA Responds To The Mexican Government's Release of Rafael Caro-Quintero, The Brutal Murderer Of DEA Special Agent Enrique 'Kiki' Camerena

The DEA released the below statement concerning the release of the murderer of DEA Special Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena (seen in the above photo):

Washingtion - The Drug Enforcement Administration was deeply troubled to learn of the decision by a Mexican court to release infamous drug trafficker Rafael Caro-Quintero from a Mexican prison. 

Caro-Quintero had been serving a 40 year prison sentence in connection with the kidnapping, torture and murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in February 1985. 

Caro-Quintero was the mastermind and organizer of this atrocious act.  We are reminded every day of the ultimate sacrifice paid by Special Agent Camarena and DEA will vigorously continue its efforts to ensure Caro-Quintero faces charges in the United States for the crimes he committed.

You can also read a news account of the release of the drug lord via the below link:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20130810_ap_81af71079b6640c7a2f2cb5b916cde5d.html?c=r