Valencia, also known as La Patrona, is accused of being in charge of cash for the Sinaloa drugs cartel.
The woman who is allegedly El Chapo’s financial operator was arrested in Mexico and charged with being in charge of cartel operations.
The alleged queen pin also known as ‘La Patrona’ was arrested in Culiacan in Sinaloa state, where El Chapo, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman, was captured in January after escaping a maximum security prison.
Guadalupe Fernandez Valencia, 55, is wanted in America after being accused of trafficking cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the country as well as money laundering.
She was also added to the kingpin list by the U.S. Treasury Department, meaning any assets she holds in American can be seized.
A picture of Sean Penn and “El Chapo” displayed on Rolling Stone’s website after the magazine published an interview by the actor after the drug lord’s arrest.
“Let me be clear. My article has failed.” -Sean Penn
Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn on Friday rejected Mexico’s claim that his secret meeting with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was crucial to the drug kingpin’s recapture, saying officials were trying to put him in the crosshairs of the feared cartel.
Penn also told talk show host Charlie Rose that he regrets the fallout from the Rolling Stone article based on his interview with Guzman.
Their meeting in a jungle hideout was the first interview anyone scored with the fugitive drug lord, and Penn said he had hoped it would spur a broader discussion on the drug war.
In Penn’s first major television interview about the meeting, Rose asked the actor whether he believed Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government had deliberately sought to credit him with Guzman’s capture to put him at risk from the Sinaloa Cartel.
“Yes. There is this myth about the visit that we made, my colleagues and I with El Chapo, that it was… ‘essential’ to his capture. We know the Mexican government, they clearly were humiliated by the notion that someone found him before they did.”
Read more about Sean Penn’s controversial meeting that may have taken down Mexico’s most powerful cartel boss on Fortune.
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