Interview with actor nets drug lord

Escaped 'El Chapo' recaptured after he meets Sean Penn in Mexican jungle for magazine article

In a cloak-and-dagger plot fit for a Hollywood movie, US actor Sean Penn met secretly in the Mexican jungle in October with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, conducting an explosive interview released a day after the drug kingpin's recapture.

The astonishing story of Penn's encounter with the world's most wanted criminal was published by Rolling Stone magazine on Saturday, the day after Guzman's arrest followed a deadly military raid in Los Mochis, a coastal city in the drug lord's native northwestern state of Sinaloa.