Judge Orders Chapo Guzman's Extradition to US 3 Weeks After Escape Agence France-Presse
go to original July 31, 2015

A poster with the face of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, reading "Wanted, Again", in Mexico City. (AFP/Yuri Cortez)

Update: Fugitive Drug Lord Chapo Guzmán Appeals U.S. Extradition Request (Fusion)

A Mexican judge has issued an order to extradite fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States - if he is recaptured following his jailbreak, authorities say.

The federal judge in Mexico City accepted a petition made by the attorney general's office on Wednesday, almost three weeks after Guzman broke out of a maximum-security prison by slipping down a tunnel on July 11.

Attorney General Arely Gomez said earlier this month that the US government had formally requested Guzman's extradition on June 25, some two weeks before his escape, and that prosecutors had been analyzing the petition.

Her predecessor, Jesus Murillo Karam, had insisted following Guzman's February 2014 capture that the Sinaloa drug cartel honcho had to face Mexican justice before any extradition could be considered.

President Enrique Pena Nieto's decision to try Guzman in Mexico instead of immediately extraditing him to the United States last year has come under scrutiny since his latest escape.

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