Thread: Trump Power: Mexico extradites top drug lord 'El Chapo' to U.S.

Thu Jan 19, 2017 | 6:01pm EST

Mexico extradites top drug lord 'El Chapo' to U.S.


Joaquin ''El Chapo'' Guzman is escorted by soldiers during a presentation in Mexico City, January 8, 2016.
REUTERS/Tomas Bravo/File Photo

Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been extradited from a prison in northern Mexico to the United States, the Mexican government said on Thursday, one day before Donald Trump assumes the U.S. presidency.

Guzman was one of the world's most wanted drug kingpins until he was captured in January 2016. Six months earlier, he had broken out of a high-security penitentiary in central Mexico through a mile-long tunnel.

"The government ... today handed Mr Guzman Loera to the U.S. authorities," the foreign ministry said in a statement, referring to a court decision on Thursday rejecting a legal challenge by his lawyers against extradition.

Guzman was being held in a prison in the infamously violent border city of Juarez in the northern state of Chihuahua where his Sinaloa cartel won a bloody drug war against rivals.

His lawyers had sought to block his extradition to the United States.

“It’s a good thing to finally get him to the U.S. side,” said a senior U.S. law enforcement official based in Mexico.

He said he did not think Mexico put “a whole lot of thought” into the timing of the extradition, that comes the day before Trump’s inauguration, “but it certainly isn’t a bad thing.”

(Reporting by Jose Luis Gonzalez in Ciudad Juarez and Tomas Bravo in Mexico City; Additional reporting by Gabriel Stargardter in Mexico City; Editing by James Dalgleish)



http://www.reuters.com/article/us-me...-idUSKBN153385

Cool. Now try him, convict him and put him away for the rest of his miserable evil life. This man is a monster.

El Chapo could be transferred to this Brooklyn prison - CNN.com

www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/americas/el-chapo-guzman-brooklyn-prison/
Aug 4, 2016 - Notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman could soon be housed in New York's Metropolitan Detention Center, which has been called ...