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La Prensa, Jan. 11, 2015
"Horrified!" Monday's front page of Mexican daily La Prensareads,quoting White House reaction to the Rolling Stone"s interview — by actor Sean Penn — with the world's most prominent drug trafficker, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Mexican authorities started U.S. extradition proceedings late Sunday against the Mexican drug kingpin, who was recaptured Friday in northwestern Mexico after a manhunt lasting several months. Guzman had escaped last July from a maximum-security prison in Mexico.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said he was "horrified" by El Chapo's comments to the Rolling Stone, in which he boasted of supplying "more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world" and having "a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats." McDonough called the arrest "very good news."
Penn said the interview, which took place in October, was coordinated by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo. Mexican authorities, who want El Chapo to face U.S. justice for the tons of drugs he has exported across the border, say they also helped plan the meeting, Reuters reports.
