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Entertainment, Film and TV, Law Enforcement, Politics

Only In The Philippines: Prison Inmates File Joint Senate Resolution

January 18, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Revilla, left, and Estrada (Photo: ABS-CBN)

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – The Philippines prides itself for being the most democratic amd tolerant society in the world. It is the only country that allows prisoners to legislate from inside their jail cells.

Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada and Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. jointly filed a Senate resolution on Monday honoring and commending television host German “Kuya Germs” Moreno for his immense contribution to the Philippine entertainment industry. Moreno died from cardiac arrest last January 8 at age 82.

Senate Resolution 1717, recognizes Moreno as “a respected and well-loved person who touched many hearts and changed many lives with his work and his personal relations, and is considered as one of the pillars of the entertainment industry.”

The inmates, of course, are elected senators, both charged with plunder and graft.

It looks like the Philippines is on its way to another Guinness World Record as the only country where its senate votes on a legislation authored by jail inmates.

Film and TV, Government, International, Law Enforcement

No Need For Extradition: El Chapo Will Voluntarily Come To The U.S.

January 10, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (The Adobo Chronicles) – It’s the biggest news in Mexico and the United States: drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been re-captured after escaping from prison and being on the run for the past six months.,

Guzman faces drug trafficking charges in the United States and the Mexican government has expressed its willingness to extradite him to the U.S.

Now it is known that Guzman spent hours talking to American actor Sean Penn, who interviewed him for a magazine during a secret meeting in the Mexican jungle. It was during that meeting with Penn that El Chapo expressed his interest to have his life depicted in a Hollywood film.

Guzman’s Hollywood ambition supercedes his drug business interests or the potential for his incaceration so he expressed his willingness to voluntarily surrender to U.S. authorities as long as they allow him to film and finish a Hollywood movie about his life. He wants to play himself in the movie.

Sean Penn wanted to play the role of Guzman in the film but he says he is as excited directing it. It could be an Oscar-winning film, Penn says.