She added that the Hollywood star Sean Penn β who met El Chapo at an encounter arranged by Del Castillo β was not under investigation, nor was anyone else involved in the production of a proposed biopic of the drug boss. Surveillance photos published last week by El Universal showed Del Castillo and Penn arriving in Mexico for their trip to meet El Chapo at a hideaway in the hills of Sinaloa, while text messages between the starlet and the cartel boss suggested that El Chapo was interested in the actress for reasons unrelated to film-making.
After the brutal murder of photojournalist Ruben Espinosa, activist Nadia Vera and three women in a Mexico City apartment, details from the investigation regularly appeared on newspaper front pages β but only those which reflected the official line that the killings were unrelated to death threats received by Espinosa and Vera for their work in Veracruz state. Meanwhile, Mexico has appeared unable to dismantle illegal financial networks that launder drug money and bind the cartels to networks of business and political patronage, said Kawas.
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