Kate Del Castillo For Lawsuit Against Mexican Government

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Although the actress Kate del Castillo had filed a lawsuit for 70 million pesos (almost indications with the drug trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to the media.

For this, it resorted to a remedy provided for in the Federal Law of State Patrimonial Responsibility, which entered into force in January 2005, by means of which an economic compensation can be demanded from the authorities when it is considered that they have caused moral damage.

Since January 2012 the actress has been in legal trouble after actor Sean Penn wrote an essay for Rolling Stone magazine in which he revealed that she had helped him get an interview with that drug lord while he was wanted. by the Mexican authorities. Del Castillo was communicating with Guzmán at the time because she planned to produce a film about her life. Within days of the trial's publication, the text messages she exchanged with Guzmán were leaked to the press and the government summoned her to testify, something she has not yet done. Since then a battle broke out between the Mexican government and the actress, to the point that she declared that he "wants to destroy her."

Last year, more than four years after his meeting with El Chapo and Penn, Del Castillo confessed during an appearance at the Festival People en Español in New York that he had passed a delicate stage in which he had been seen in the peephole of the Mexican authorities and that there was still no truce to that litigation. "I still have a hard time," he revealed.