

If del Castillo feels any remorse, or indeed has any other thoughts about the international storm around her contacts with the world’s most infamous narco, we may never know them - unless she is forced to talk in court. Penn, for all the criticism he has received - including for allowing El Chapo final approval of his 10,000-word interview - has at least explained himself publicly, including on “60 Minutes.”ĭuring that interview with Charlie Rose he even admitted his interview had “failed” to achieve his aim of sparking a conversation about the war on drugs. If I don’t talk it is because my lawyers have advised me so given that the government wants to destroy me by force.” One of Mexico’s best-known leading ladies, she’s also the star of the telenovela La Reina del Sur, about the glamorous female head of a drug-trafficking organization.ĭel Castillo, who lives in Los Angeles, initially sounded eager to give her version of events, sharing this with her nearly 3 million Twitter followers on Jan. 13:īut now, with the heat mounting and Mexican prosecutors due to question her in Mexico’s Los Angeles consulate, del Castillo seems to have changed her mind.Īccording to Univision, the actress sent them a brief statement in Spanish that read: “I don’t have any reason to give explanations to the press. There have also been questions about whether El Chapo, who is thought to have amassed a billion-dollar fortune as head of the ruthless Sinaloa cartel, had helped finance del Castillo’s tequila business.
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Penn and del Castillo have been criticized from all angles, including the former’s failure to ask tough questions about El Chapo’s role in the bloodbath unleashed by the cocaine trade in his native Mexico, and how the celebs’ amateur cloak-and-dagger contacts with Guzman allegedly helped law enforcement track down the fugitive narco.īut the biggest controversy, in Mexico at least, has been about the flirtatious text messages between del Castillo, 43, and El Chapo, who had been on the run in rugged northwestern Mexico since last July when he sensationally broke free from jail a second time. That’s because she helped set up the interview with Guzman, who’s also an alleged mass murderer. She's currently being investigated for her contacts with him, specifically for possible money laundering. The Mexican actress has been at the eye of the storm over Hollywood star Sean Penn’s highly controversial Rolling Stone interview with the world’s most wanted drug lord. Whether or not he wins the statuette, one thing is clear: the recognition of the public and of the connoisseurs of the seventh art is already hers, of a Mexican who showed the pain of mothers who are looking for their children disappeared by violence in Mexico.Kate del Castillo might want to make up her mind about whether she should explain her dealings with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Until the end of Cannes Film Festival It will be known if “La Civil” obtained any award, as this Mexican co-production competes in the selection “ A certain look”.

Recorded in Durango, it is based on the true story of Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, a woman who was shot and killed outside her home after she investigated, pursued, found and threatened her daughter’s kidnappers and murderers Karen Alejandra Salinas Rodríguez, disappeared in 2014, when she was only 16 years old. Faced with this situation, her mother Cielo (Arcelia Ramírez) begins her own investigation to clarify the disappearance of her daughter. The first film of the Romanian director Teodora Mihai tells the story of a teenage girl, played by Denisse Azpilcueta, who is kidnapped by the Northern Cartel in Mexico. “La Civil” is based on the true story of Miriam Rodríguez Martínez (Photo: Special) In her most recent publication on her Instagram account, where she has more than 26 thousand followers, the Mexican actress Estela Caldern, who appears accompanied by her husband, Giampaolo Spaventa, and her daughter Emilia, confessed that it is the saddest birthday of its existence. As soon as the screams began, she approached her companions from the film so that they could all accompany her in such an endearing moment. Mexican actress spends the saddest birthday of her existence Instagram photo Estela Caldern. Through tears, he thanked each show of affection from the audience who did not stop celebrating his performance. In a spectacular white dress, with magenta flowers embroidered on the top and bottom of the shiny fabric, Ramírez observed every moment of applause in the Cannes room. In the 2021 edition, Arcelia Ramirez, Mexican actress who participated in the Mexican-Belgian-Romanian production called “La Civil”, was applauded for about eight minutes at the end of the screening.
