Chapo's: text messages to Kate, Penile implant, the circus continues

Lucio R for Borderland Beat

DD is working on the Milenio story of Chapo’s text messages to actress Kate Castillo.  For her part, she says most of what is reported is BS.  There are rumors she has given PROCESO an exclusive interview that will be published this Sunday. 

As for the Milenio story, it has been picked up by more news agencies  in the U.S. than in Mexico.  I conducted a quick perusal of respected main stream Mexican media outlets  and Mexican agency press releases. such as the PGR agency, and  I failed to find the story.  Perhaps later in the day, I am writing this early hours of the day.

The story says El Chapo agreed to Penn conducting the interview without knowing who he was, and  although Chapo had no clue who Penn is,  days later there was a  meeting.  

Why the leader of the Sinaloa cartel was so sloppy with his security, while being the most wanted man in Mexico is the guess of anyone.

After listening to to him in the 17 minute video, he comes across as not only uneducated, that we knew, but not the sharpest tool in the shed either. 

That came as a surprise to me, as I always harbored the impression that Chapo was this uneducated genius, who if legit could have been as powerful as Steve Jobs, speaking in a business sense.  

After viewing the video, for me, he cut a pathetic cartoonish figure, rather than the brilliance of perhaps the most successful drug trafficker of all time.

And later seeing the photos in the Doux Hotel, and his mugshots, Chapo looked differently than at any other time he was captured or mugged. At the hotel he looked, stunned and crushed, in the mug he looks infuriated and somewhat unhinged.

It makes one wonder, what role El Chapo truly had with the Sinaloa Cartel. Was it someone else who in reality is the premier leader, sitting at the top of the Sinaloa’s organizational chart? Someone smarter, perceptive, and inflexible? Or has he lost what he once had, somehow he seemed far more powerful as an enigma.  I saw a cartoon the other day with Kate Castillo looming large next to a tiny El Chapo as the Wizard of Oz which sums up what I am thinking.

El Chapo is being humiliated all over the place, in memes, the press, and Mexicans relentless at poking fun at the capo.  

Now Reforma is reporting that Chapo suffers from erectile dysfunction, and sometime in October, 2015,  Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman underwent surgery, in which doctors implanted a device to assure an erection.

According to the report, the surgery was done in a  Tijuana clinic, months, after "El Chapo" allegedly met actress Kate del Castillo and US actor Sean Penn. This contradicts the Milenio story of romantic texts from Chapo wanting to hook up with Castillo in September.

Scars of the procedure  were detected by forensic doctors at Federal Criminal prison Altiplano No. 1, when the drug trafficker was booked  on January 8, after being captured in the city of Los Mochis. 

"I saw the scars on the back, hips and reproductive system," the medical source said. And the implant was apparent in xrays taken.

When Chapo broke out of prison in July, the Mexican government was humiliated at best.  With all these personal stories being leaked against Chapo,  true or otherwise, it  is difficult not to think the government is settling accounts with Chapo,  by piloting a humiliation campaign against him in return.  Staring from the photos in the sex room at the DOUX, with El Cholo Ivan.  He was not a guest there, yet some publications still say that is where he waas captured.  It’s hard to know what is true.  

As for the Penn-Chapo-Castillo meeting,  Sinaloa’s Ríodoce news website said the meeting with  "El Chapo" with del Castillo and Penn was in a nature reserve at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, in the tropical forest of the Municipality of Cosala.  The beautiful site has a hotel, cabins, pool and observatory.

And evidently, one  raucous, unyielding rooster.