El Chapo  and the secret Sean Penn interview: What happens next

Kate del Castillo, Sean Penn, El Chapo, 

First came the arrest, then the publication of a bombshell interview in a mountainous Mexican jungle, and now the extradition process

Mexican forces recaptured drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman last week, six months after his prison escape. But despite the end of his freedom, a circus was just beginning

In an article published Saturday, actor Sean Penn revealed that he interviewed then-fugitive Guzman in a Mexican jungle in October. Penn's account, published in Rolling Stone, featured an unapologetic Guzman touting himself as the biggest drug supplier in the world

Mexican officials have said that while he was on the run, he called movie producers about a planned biopic. Such Hollywood theatrics added another twist to the surreal life of the two-time prison escapee

Mexican forces recaptured Guzman in his native Sinaloa state early Friday after a shootout that killed six of his people

As the raid was unfolding, Guzman escaped via a secret passage in the home that descended into a tunnel that led to the city's storm drains, a senior law enforcement source told CNN

There was at least a 90 minute lapse before Mexican Marines found the secret passage, the source said

Penn's interview with the drug lord was "essential" for his capture, Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez Gonzalez said in a radio interview Monday with journalist Joaquin Lopez Doriga

Before the interview came to light, two U.S. law enforcement officials had said tracking of cell phones and electronic exchanges of people close to him led to his recapture. Mexican authorities had said they captured Guzman partly because his representatives contacted filmmakers and actors about making his biopic