![]() There will be no mile-long tunnel dug under his room, like in 2015 at the Altiplano prison just west of Mexico City no laundry cart getaway, as in the 2001 jailbreak from Puente Grande prison in Jalisco. federal government and tried from November 2018 until February 2019.Įl Chapo will not escape from the ADX, which has housed illustrious jailmates such as Timothy McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski. The case was brought against him by the U.S. He was whisked off to this icy stronghold in 2019, when the Eastern District court of New York sentenced him to life plus thirty years on murder and drug charges. ![]() Scoring one last favor, he might have gotten a room with a view out of the so-called “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” Colorado’s ADX supermax prison. He spends twenty-three hours a day there, with nothing to look at but a black-and-white television and a four-inch window. Simon & Schuster, 448 pages.Īt this moment, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is likely sitting in a soundproof, eighty-four-square-foot cell. The Mexican government can’t do anything about the violence.The Untold Story of the World’s Most Infamous Drug Lord by Noah Hurowitz. The people need to get involved in this too. I’m not running for office, OK? I don’t want to get political, but I do believe there might be a way to work with both governments. I just read that for the first time ever Mexico is allowing extradition for some 12 or 13 drug dealers into the United States. One thing that hasn’t changed is the production of drugs has not diminished and the consumption of drugs has not diminished. The maneuvers of how the drugs are being shipped, it’s changed drastically. From 2000, when I shot “Traffic,” to 2015, I’ve made friends in my personal life with DEA agents, people that are on the front lines of this war. It was just the beginning of the Mexican side of the drug wars. I did a TV miniseries called, which was about a DEA agent … who went to Mexico and was killed. What have you learned after all these years depicting the drug crisis? It’s part of what this movie is trying to do and I understand people might not like these movies because they’re too violent or whatever, but that’s what is. I think people are jerked by the darkness. It was a scene that shocked them and probably put the film into a different angle. It was the scene that scored the highest. Why don’t we do both versions? We did ours first. So his decision to wipe the table, in my opinion, was the way to go. You just do a little more work where you concentrate a little bit harder a little bit more discipline.ĭidn’t you shoot two different versions of one particularly violent scene? ![]() They’re motivators in a way because I don’t care what anybody says as soon as you get in front of a camera, working with a director you consider good, you’re going to try to impress them. Josh Brolin and Emily Blunt, I’ve known for a long time. Roger Deakins is one of the reasons I’d decided to do the film too. I don’t remember all my movies, but I don’t think I’ve played that character driven by revenge in any of them. I think I’ve played almost every angle in the drug war world. You have a lot of experience in this genre as an actor. ![]() Soft-spoken and modest, the actor at one point quipped, “Sometimes I think I dreamed this stuff.” In a 1990 Emmy-winning TV miniseries, he played real-life undercover DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, and 10 years later won an Oscar for his turn as a conflicted Mexican cop in Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic.”Įarlier this fall, in a compact room at the Sunset Marquis, Del Toro shared his meandering thoughts with The Envelope, musing how his portrayals tracked the evolution of the drug war. It’s familiar territory for Del Toro, 48, who’s made his name on drug war characters. SIGN UP for the free Indie Focus movies newsletter > He plays opposite Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin, who are American operatives desperate to beat back the murderous cartels from the U.S.-Mexico border. In “Sicario” (Spanish for “hit man”), Del Toro is the titular character, a man poisoned and empowered by 20 years of drug war barbarism. Meanwhile, sci-fi fans blew up Twitter after reports that Del Toro would portray a new villain in “Star Wars: Episode VIII” and reprise his character the Collector in “Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. Just days after the release of his latest film, “Sicario,” a dark drug war thriller from Oscar-nominated director Denis Villeneuve, news broke of a possible sequel.
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