SEAN PENN UPSET ABOUT HIS 'EL CHAPO' ARTICLE

Sean Penn’s Rolling Stone article recounting anin-person interviewwith infamous drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmanis exactly what you’d expect from a celebrity with no journalism training and 10,000 words with which to do as he pleases.It’s a rambling mess, full of malapropisms Penn probably thought were colorful -- e.g., "My speculation goes audio" and "At this moment, I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (sorry)."
To Penn’s dismay, no one seems to be taking his views on the drug war seriously, focusing either onthe article’s leaden proseor whether it was ethical of Rolling Stone to evenpublish the piece. The publication allowed Guzman to vet the final copy, although he reportedly did not ask for any changes."I have a regret that the entire discussion about this article ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the war on drugs," Penn told CBS’s Charlie Rose in aninterviewscheduled to air Sunday."Whether you agree with Sean Penn or not, there is a complicity there, and if you are in the moral right, or on the far left, just as many of your children are doing these drugs," the actor went on. "And howmuch time have they spent in the last week, since this article [came out], talking about that? One percent? I think that’d be generous."
The Mexican government has said Penn’sarticle helped lead tothe drug kingpin being capturedthe day before Rolling Stone published the piece.Penn denied this, saying his meeting with Guzman occurred long before the arrest."There is this myth about the visit that we made -- my colleagues and I with El Chapo -- that it was, as the attorney general of Mexico is quoted, ‘essential’ to his capture," Penn said. "We had met withhim many weeks earlier … on October 2, ina place nowhere near where he was captured."
Rose asked Penn whether he thought the Mexican government had credited him forthe capture as a sort of retaliation for meeting with Guzman and embarrassing officials who had been looking for the man ever since his escapefrom a Mexican prison last year.
"Yes," he replied.
Does he fear for his life?"No," Penn said.
Penn vehemently insist that his article did not help in the capture of Guzman
Culled from Huffington Post