Borderland Beat: Mexico's Office of the Attorney General Investigating Kate del Castillo for El Chapo Connection

Sunday, January 10, 2016

PGR investigating Kate del Castillo's connection to El Chapo

Lucio R. Borderland Beat-written with material from Excelsior and RioDoce

Actress Kate del Castillo is being investigated by the Attorney General's Office (PGR), after it was announced she has conducted personal communication with Joaquin El Chapo Guzman from 2012.

The actor Sean Penn and del Castillo had met with the drug lord while he was in hiding in the  Golden Triangle, last October, Excelsior consulted an official of the PGR, on the situation of Kate Castillo, who in 2012 wrote a letter to the Sinaloa Cartel kingpin, to which he said: "We are investigating the actress Kate del Castillo".

In the Rolling Stone interview, which triggered the PGR investigation,  Penn said a lawyer for El Chapo contacted del Castillo and sent her flowers, but claims she never received them. In 2014 El Chapo was captured and imprisoned received offers to make a movie of his life, although he did not accept the offers.

Penn said in his article,  the drug dealer decided to make the film of his life, but on his own, but that would Kate del Castillo would be a part of it. Then the same lawyer who had been commissioned to bring flowers 'El Chapo'  located del Castillo through the National Association of Actors.

Del Castillo had written  contact with Guzman in prison and then again when he escaped on July 11, 2015, which interested Penn,  not for the movie but for the interview with Rolling Stone and is now the subject of investigation of Kate del Castillo.

Mexico Attorney General Arely Gomez, eluded to the fact that it was “el Chapo’s ” mission to make an autobiographical movie that led to his whereabouts, as he contacted producers and actors.  It wasn’t until the news broke of the Penn interview, that the dots were able to be connected.

Reforma is reporting that Penn is also under investigation.