Rolling Stone magazine publishes interview conducted late last year as Mexico is preparing for drug kingpin’s extradition to US
A secret interview given by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the recaptured Mexican drug kingpin, to the American actor Sean Penn helped authorities locate his whereabouts, according to a Mexican law-enforcement official.
The interview between Guzman and Penn, purportedly held in late 2015 in a hideout in Mexico, appeared on Saturday on the  website  of Rolling Stone magazine.
An anonymous Mexican official said it was the Penn interview that led authorities to Guzman in a rural part of Durango State in October.
News of Penn’s secret meeting came as Mexican officials weighed the possibility of extraditing Guzman to the US, something they had ruled out earlier.
Authorities aborted an earlier raid because Guzman was with two women and a child. But they were able to track him to Los Mochis, Sinaloa, where he was captured on Friday.
He was arrested after a shootout in Los Mochis, six months after he escaped Mexico’s most-secure prison. Five people were killed during the operation that caught Guzman, who has twice escaped from prison.
Arely Gomez, Mexico attorney general, said on Friday that Guzman’s contact with actors and producers for a possible biopic helped give law enforcement a new lead.

Al-Jazeera report, 10, January, 2016