
He was widely understood to be the most powerful drug lord in Mexico, if not the world, and was considered responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. El Chapo had escaped from prison in 2001, and had been at large since then. Then she turned to Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, or Shorty-the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel. I am alive and for that I thank God every day, for who I am, for good or bad.” I don’t believe in the Pope and the Vatican and all their wealth . . . I don’t believe in either punishment or sin . . . During the next half hour, she proceeded to free-associate on love and politics: “I don’t believe in marriage, I believe in love . . . “Today I want to express what I think, and if it suits anybody else, great,” she began, in Spanish. Now she thumbed through a few notebooks filled with song lyrics and observations, and then started typing in an app that allowed her to write longer tweets.
#Kate del castillo series
“The only thing that changes is the merchandise.” The series had dominated ratings in the Spanish-speaking world, and made her a household name, particularly in Mexico, but for del Castillo, who is forty-three, the experience had been overwhelming at one point during filming, she had received medical treatment for exhaustion. Her character, Teresa Mendoza, a small-town Mexican woman whose love life enticed her into the narcotics trade, was given to ruthlessly practical observations. Del Castillo had spent much of the year starring as a drug trafficker in “La Reina del Sur” (“The Queen of the South”), a sixty-three-episode telenovela on Telemundo. The previous year had been difficult: in November, her marriage to the actor and model Aarón Díaz had ended. She had just returned home, to Los Angeles, after a Caribbean cruise with her sister and her parents. On the evening of January 9, 2012, the Mexican actress Kate del Castillo poured a glass of wine, sat down at her computer, and opened Twitter.
