Sean Penn has made the drug war a central priority, but he still thinks he could be doing more.
"I feel complicit in the suffering that is going on because I'm not thinking about it every day," he told CBS' Charlie Rose.
On "60 Minutes" Sunday night, the Academy Award-winning actor discussed his meeting with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Penn interviewed Guzman for a Rolling Stone article, the interviews for which Mexican authorities say helped them to capture the fugitive drug lord earlier this month.
Guzman escaped from a Mexican prison last year. But during his incarceration, the drug war continued to wreak havoc in Mexico. And, El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel still dominated the flow of illegal drugs to the U.S. Even the notorious kingpin said he was not essential to Sinaloa's power.
"The day I don't exist, it's not going to decrease in any way at all," he told Penn. "Drug trafficking does not depend on just one person."
Penn said he considers himself just as guilty as the cartels.
"I'm not watching these laws that are showing no progression, these rehabilitations that are not happening," Penn told "60 Minutes." "So I'm looking the other way; I find that equally complicit with murders in Juarez."
Watch a clip from his interview above.
CORRECTION: This article previously misattributed to Penn the Mexican authorities' claim that the article had a role in apprehending Guzman.
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