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Kate del Castillo Still Moving Forward With “El Chapo” Movie

Via Mexico News Daily– Work on a biographical film about drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is going ahead, according to Harland Braun, attorney for Mexican actress Kate del Castillo.

He said the woman who portrayed a drug cartel boss in the television series La Reyna del Sur, or Queen of the South, will continue to work on a film portraying the life of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.

It will tell how Guzmán succeeded in rising from humble beginnings to become the world’s biggest drug trafficker, Braun said, and will tell the good along with the bad.

The film will be “done correctly because Joaquín Guzmán is part of Mexican history just as the Mafia has been part of the history of the United States.”

The lawyer also said there is no sign that the U.S. is investigating the actress, although he suspected there might be one into the links between her and the cartel boss. But they won’t find anything, he predicted.

The film about Guzmán has been discussed since 2014 when his lawyers contacted del Castillo about the project. According to information compiled by Mexico’s Attorney General’s office, del Castillo was to act as an intermediary with well known filmmakers and actors.

An Argentinean writer was to be contracted to write the script.

The plan was reportedly discussed further when the actress secretly visited Guzmán, along with actor Sean Penn, in October last year while he was on the run.

Vietnamese Woman Escapes Death Penalty By Impregnating Herself

Via Huffington Post– A Vietnamese prisoner used syringes and another inmate’s semen to impregnate herself. The country’s penal code prohibits executing pregnant prisoners.

When a Vietnamese drug smuggler gives birth this spring, she can thank her newborn baby for saving her life.

Nguyen Thi Hue, 42, was arrested in the coastal province of Quang Ninh in 2012 on charges of drug trafficking, local newspaper Thanh Nien News reports. She was sentenced to death two years later. When she appealed, the court upheld her sentence, according to the Associated Press.

But it looks like Hue will avoid the death penalty after all. The Vietnamese penal code forbids the execution of pregnant women or mothers with children under the age of 36 months and orders that in those cases the death penalty should be converted to life imprisonment.

Investigators discovered that Hue paid a 27-year-old male inmate more than $2,000 in August 2015 for his semen and syringes, which they say she used to inseminate herself. The baby is due in April, and Hue’s sentence will officially be reduced to life imprisonment after the birth.

Four officers at the prison have been suspended for alleged negligence, according to the Associated Press.

As Thanh Nien News points out, this is not the first time a prisoner has pulled off escaping death row by getting pregnant.

In 2007, two guards who worked at Hoa Binh prison were jailed after they allowed a male inmate to have sex with a female prisoner, which resulted in a pregnancy. The prisoner gave birth to a boy in March of that year and escaped death by firing squad.

El Chapo’s Female Financial Operator Arrested In Mexico

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.