Let's sort this: Ms DEL CASTILLO was born legacyBRAT; Chapo = peon; PENN = dupe
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https://www.yahoo.com/movies/mexican-actress-kate-del-castillo-real-life-drug-192007256.html
[font size=5]Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo, real-life drug connection[/font]
.... Del Castillo has the kind of connections in Mexico's movie and film industry to actually get a film made.
She's the daughter of famed Mexican actor Eric del Castillo and has been a star herself for more than 20 years. ....
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal said of the Chapo meeting, "as a Mexican, this is a very serious matter. It's not something I can laugh about."
"There are a lot of deaths involved," said Garcia Bernal at the Golden Globe awards in Beverly Hills, California. "It is a very painful topic ... I cannot take it lightly." ....
http://www.thewrap.com/sean-penn-and-kate-del-castillos-excellent-el-chapo-adventure-isnt-journalism/
[font size=5]Sean Penn and Kate del Castillo’s Excellent El Chapo Adventure Isn’t Journalism[/font]
.... The story is stunning when you first learn of it. An Academy Award-winning actor with a hyperactive moral compass and an itchy passport ventured into the Mexican jungle with his actress friend to meet with the most notorious drug lord in the world, Joaquín Guzmán Loera.
Um, wow.
Then you take a moment to weigh what this really meant and it feels reckless and self-serving. What purpose was served by Penn’s high-stakes trip? Was he seeking to enlighten the world with El Chapo’s missing perspective? Was he trying to illuminate the failure of the United States’ War on Drugs? Was that a license to seek out the “other side” of the issue?
Or did he just think it would be really, really cool?
This whole venture is dodgy ethical territory and it does not make Rolling Stone – already reeling from a failure to hold itself properly accountable for the University of Virginia rape debacle – look good.
Penn and del Castillo put their safety at risk. He is still at risk, even though he is back on American territory, and so is she. You are not dealing with people who play by the rules. And now it turns out Penn led the Mexican authorities straight to El Chapo. That element not only wreaks havoc with the notion of Penn as neutral interlocutor, but increases the complexities of what comes next and how we view the “interview” that resulted.
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