Mexico Demands Actress Appear Before Court in 'El Chapo' Case

The attorney general of Mexico, or PGR, has ordered actress Kate del Castillo to reveal her whereabouts and declare before a federal prosecutor in connection to her alleged financial links with the infamous drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

The request follows an investigation over a tequila company owned by Del Castillo, the Miami headquarters for which have been abandoned for months.

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According to official sources, the PGR previously asked the actress to appear at the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles, where she resides. However, she ignored the subpoena and filed a petition seeking an injunction against any arrest related to Mexico's investigation of her relationship with Guzman, who was recaptured last month.

The actress, as a dual US-Mexican national, is legally entitled to file for an injunction against government actions that she believes would violate her constitutional rights, even if those actions haven't yet occurred.

Del Castillo was responsible for arranging a secret interview between Hollywood star Sean Penn and El Chapo in January, which was published in Rolling Stone magazine. Both actors met the drug lord at an undisclosed location in the Mexican state of Durango in October, months after the he escaped from a maximum security prison for a second time last July.

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Mexican authorities have said the clandestine meeting the actors held with the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel—considered the world’s most dangerous, richest and powerful drug trafficker—helped them track down the kingpin after a months-long manhunt. Guzman is now jailed in solitary confinement in the same Altiplano prison he escaped from last year.