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The New York Post called American actor Sean Penn "El Jerko" for meeting with Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in October, nearly three months after the Sinaloa cartel boss escaped from Mexico's most fortified prison, and not informing authorities about it.

Penn's seven-hour Rolling Stone interview in the middle of Mexican jungle, however, led security forces to discover Guzmán's location, according to The Associated Press.

The six-month manhunt for Guzman concluded on January 8 when the "peasant-farmer-turned-billionaire-drug-lord," as Sean Penn described him, was apprehended in Los Mochis, Mexico.

(New York Post)

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