Sean Penn

Actor Sean Penn said he has “nothin' to hide,” after images published Monday indicated he was under surveillance when he met with the Mexican actress who led him to Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman—and the pair was apparently followed and photographed as they set out for the supposedly secret meeting with the drug lord.

A new video documents the deadly raid on a safe house that ultimately led to the capture of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán.

Actor Sean Penn was widely ridiculed by the US public after Rolling Stone published a laudatory profile he wrote of the Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzmán Loera, also known as ‘El Chapo,” who was re-captured by Mexican authorities earlier this week.

He thought his story was movie material. After all drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the leader of Sinaloa cartel, had been captured twice and escaped, and that, along with his ruthlessness, made him a name known in pop culture. But it was those Hollywood dreams that helped Mexican marines track him down in Los Mochis, a seaside city, and capture him Friday.

The recapture of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman took a surprise, Hollywood twist when a Mexican official said security forces located the world’s most-wanted trafficker thanks to a secret interview with U.S. actor Sean Penn.

Recently captured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was unapologetic for running one of the world’s biggest drug trafficking organizations in a Rolling Stone interview with American actor Sean Penn published late Saturday.

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