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[h=1]El Chapo’s ride to freedom: First pictures of ‘motorbike on rails’ Mexican drugs lord used in tunnel escape from prison that ‘he paid for with $50m in bribes’[/h]
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...sed-tunnel-escape-prison-paid-50m-bribes.html
- Mexican cartel leader Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman fled prison on Saturday
- He used a complex underground tunnel to make his astonishing getaway
- The tunnel led from the showers in Altiplano prison to a construction site
- It was built over the course of a year by El Chapo's highly-skilled henchmen
- It was complete with ventilation, electric lighting and a getaway motorbike
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...sed-tunnel-escape-prison-paid-50m-bribes.html
They built a canal in Imperial Valley, Californya along the border for irrigation. Inadvertently, hundreds of Wetbacks have drowned in it trying to sneak into Cali, so people bitched and now they're installing safety features to make it more illegal friendly. Some more convoluted Kaliphornya logic there
https://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/20...-is-deadliest-crossing-for-illegal-immigrants
https://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/20...-is-deadliest-crossing-for-illegal-immigrants
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The only Mexican things I care to think about are the exotic fruits........and Tacos.
Oh yeah, because I Love it Sweet and/or Spicy...
Oh yeah, because I Love it Sweet and/or Spicy...
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Is the Cartel going to go after Sean Penn?.
[h=1]As Mexico hunted ‘El Chapo,’ Sean Penn secretly interviewed the world’s most wanted drug lord at hideout[/h]
[h=1]As Mexico hunted ‘El Chapo,’ Sean Penn secretly interviewed the world’s most wanted drug lord at hideout[/h]
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Sean Penn raised eyebrows in Latin America before 'El Chapo' interview
CNN)Sean Penn was ruffling feathers in Latin American long before he paid a secret visit to Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's hideaway.
The actor has earned a reputation as a darling of several of the region's top leftist leaders. He's visited places there rarely seen by Hollywood stars, making comments along the way that drew compliments and criticism.
Now Penn is in the spotlight again, as some slam his Rolling Stone interview with Guzman as overly sympathetic toward the notorious crime boss and others praise him for nabbing a story journalists weren't able to get.
Here's a look at some of the actor's other forays into the world of Latin American policies and politics:
He was chummy with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez
Penn traveled to South America a number of times to meet with Hugo Chavez and was often praised in remarks by the Venezuelan President.
After Chavez's death in 2013, Penn released a statement that showed how close he'd gotten to the Venezuelan leader.
"Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion," he said. "I lost a friend I was blessed to have."
The late President Hugo Chavez laughs as he talks with actor Sean Penn during a 2012 visit.
He interviewed Cuban President Raul Castro
Even with warming relations between the United States and Cuba, interviews with the country's leaders are rare. But Penn interviewed President Raul Castro in 2008, publishing an account of the conversation in The Nation that was billed as Castro's first interview with an international journalist.
In the interview, Castro told Penn he'd be willing to meet with Barack Obama if he won the U.S. presidency.
Several years earlier, Penn also met with longtime leader Fidel Castro. It's a conversation he's said deepened his "growing interest in Latin American history."
He may have helped U.S. businessman escape Bolivia
Call him a favorite of the Latin American left if you will, but not all of the region's left-wing leaders are fans of Penn.
The actor ran afoul of Bolivia's government and President Evo Morales as he pushed for the release of Jacob Ostreicher, a flooring contractor from New York who'd been imprisoned there on suspicion of money laundering tied to a rice-growing operation. Ostreicher denied the accusations and claimed that corrupt officials had trumped up the case.
In 2013, Penn testified before a U.S. House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, describing "feces-filled cells" in Bolivian prisons as he asked U.S. lawmakers to pressure sponsors of the Dakar Rally to cancel its planned 2014 route through Bolivia if Ostreicher was not freed.
His comments drew the ire of Bolivian Culture Minister Pablo Groux.
"The remarks by Mr. Penn are his worst acting in all of his career," the culture minister said, according to the state-run ABI news agency.
Later that year, Ostreicher was whisked back to the United States. As the U.S. government denied involvement in Ostreicher's return, rumors swirled that Penn had something to do with it.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/10/americas/sean-penn-latin-america/index.html
CNN)Sean Penn was ruffling feathers in Latin American long before he paid a secret visit to Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's hideaway.
The actor has earned a reputation as a darling of several of the region's top leftist leaders. He's visited places there rarely seen by Hollywood stars, making comments along the way that drew compliments and criticism.
Now Penn is in the spotlight again, as some slam his Rolling Stone interview with Guzman as overly sympathetic toward the notorious crime boss and others praise him for nabbing a story journalists weren't able to get.
Here's a look at some of the actor's other forays into the world of Latin American policies and politics:
He was chummy with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez
Penn traveled to South America a number of times to meet with Hugo Chavez and was often praised in remarks by the Venezuelan President.
After Chavez's death in 2013, Penn released a statement that showed how close he'd gotten to the Venezuelan leader.
"Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion," he said. "I lost a friend I was blessed to have."
The late President Hugo Chavez laughs as he talks with actor Sean Penn during a 2012 visit.
He interviewed Cuban President Raul Castro
Even with warming relations between the United States and Cuba, interviews with the country's leaders are rare. But Penn interviewed President Raul Castro in 2008, publishing an account of the conversation in The Nation that was billed as Castro's first interview with an international journalist.
In the interview, Castro told Penn he'd be willing to meet with Barack Obama if he won the U.S. presidency.
Several years earlier, Penn also met with longtime leader Fidel Castro. It's a conversation he's said deepened his "growing interest in Latin American history."
He may have helped U.S. businessman escape Bolivia
Call him a favorite of the Latin American left if you will, but not all of the region's left-wing leaders are fans of Penn.
The actor ran afoul of Bolivia's government and President Evo Morales as he pushed for the release of Jacob Ostreicher, a flooring contractor from New York who'd been imprisoned there on suspicion of money laundering tied to a rice-growing operation. Ostreicher denied the accusations and claimed that corrupt officials had trumped up the case.
In 2013, Penn testified before a U.S. House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, describing "feces-filled cells" in Bolivian prisons as he asked U.S. lawmakers to pressure sponsors of the Dakar Rally to cancel its planned 2014 route through Bolivia if Ostreicher was not freed.
His comments drew the ire of Bolivian Culture Minister Pablo Groux.
"The remarks by Mr. Penn are his worst acting in all of his career," the culture minister said, according to the state-run ABI news agency.
Later that year, Ostreicher was whisked back to the United States. As the U.S. government denied involvement in Ostreicher's return, rumors swirled that Penn had something to do with it.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/10/americas/sean-penn-latin-america/index.html
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Will Sean Penn face questioning after El Chapo interview?
Will Sean Penn face questioning after El Chapo interview?
Will Sean Penn face questioning after El Chapo interview?
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short answer No. He was asked to do it so......
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Minutes before his escape.
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His capture video.
