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The story of how Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo met Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is a story made for Hollywood. It involves journalism, lust and one of the world's most notorious drug lords, but more than anything, it's a story about the wonderful intricacies of human behavior.
You might recall that El Chapo was captured earlier this year in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Officials say they were able to track the fugitive thanks, in part, to a meeting Guzman had with Sean Penn and Castillo.
Penn wrote about that meeting in a piece for Rolling Stone Magazine, but that's his side of the story. It was Castillo's side that journalist Robert Draper looked into for an article in the New Yorker. And he joins Alex Cohen to talk about it.
To hear the conversation click on the link embedded at the top of the post.