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By Raul Hernandez<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Notebookventura@gmail.com<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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“It’s sad. But there are those who live in dark places like rats and cockroaches. Who embrace evil and are driven by greed. Men who kill people like barnyard flies. A world where God doesn’t exist. Where rage and revenge run rampant.”<\/em> \u00a0\u2014 “Stepping on the Devil’s Tail,<\/strong> a novel.<\/p>\n

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Sean Penn and His Chapo Interview<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sean Penn is a Hollywood trained monkey who believes he is the characters on the Hollywood scripts that are handed to him to read.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"SeanUnfortunately, many people also believe that actors like Penn are the characters who they go to see in the movies.<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems that Penn just woke up and realized that there are terrorists and other violent and vicious criminals who aren’t reading the same movie scripts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Penn probably thought that he would make the talk shows and bathe in the limelight of landing the El Chapo interview without hearing from the Sinaloa Drug Cartel’s lawyer or Chapo’s henchmen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

That goes with the territory of being a journalist and interviewing or reporting about dangerous people or dangerous groups in certain countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Daniel Pearl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the real world, there have been many journalists who were killed \u00a0just doing their jobs like James Foley and Daniel Pearl.<\/span><\/p>\n

Foley, who was beheaded in the Middle East by ISIS, was one of these courageous reporters. Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped and killed while doing a report about al-Qaeda.<\/span><\/p>\n

There have been many, many other journalists throughout the world who have died doing their jobs.<\/span>
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Among the most dangerous countries for a journalist to work, Mexico ranked number eighth last year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists<\/strong>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A good \u00a0friend, Alfredo Corchado<\/strong>, works as a reporter for the Dallas Morning News. He was been assigned to \u00a0Mexico City Bureau for many years, and one day, learned about a death threat from the Zeta Cartel goons. \u00a0It got ugly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alfredo began working in El Paso for the Herald-Post straight out of journalism school. That’s where we met. He is a tough, dedicated and talented journalist. Who soon went to work at the Wall Street Journal after he left the Herald-Post. \u00a0He said he “blamed the Herald-Post for infecting him with the incurable disease of journalism.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Alfredo’s book, “Midnight in Mexico \u2014 A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent into Darkness<\/a>,” is about his experiences in writing about the drug trade in Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will not question whether Actor Sean Penn is a journalist. It’s not my place to do so. Besides, I know so-called journalists who are just great actors and drama queens, very little beyond that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Penn, through a connection with a Mexican actress, was able to score a journalistic coup by interviewing the richest, most powerful and violent drug lord on the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Good for him. He beat the New York Times’ and L.A. Times’ reporters, the Washington Post and other media heavyweights.<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times has an excellent story titled, “How El Chapo Was Finally Captured, Again”<\/a>\u00a0about the drug lord.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapo and Trump<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This is interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortly after \u00a0Donald Trump<\/strong> insulted Chapo and Chapo threatened Trump, there were no further remarks or comments from the vociferous Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

I believed Trump talked to the DEA or FBI or both who told him to STFU. <\/span><\/p>\n

Even after El Chapo was recaptured, Trump didn’t say a word about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Penn should have done likewise and simply said: \u00a0“I stand by my report for Rolling Stone magazine.”<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, he went on 60 Minutes and is now a big part of the story. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen carefully to his voice during a portion of the interview. \u00a0It sounds fearful when he talks about the consequences of interviewing the head of a cartel that has been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people, including women and children.<\/span><\/p>\n

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