US Will Seek Extradition for Drug Lord El Chapo Guzman: Attorney General Reuters
go to original January 21, 2015

Joaquin ‘Shorty’ Guzman is paraded before reporters after his arrest last Februray. (Susana Gonzalez/Getty Images)

Mexico's attorney general said he expects the United States to submit an extradition request soon for drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" (El Chapo) Guzman, who was Mexico's most wanted man until his capture last February.

"I'm aware they're going to ask me, and it won't be a problem to do all the paperwork to determine at the time what will be most convenient," Attorney General Jesus Murillo told reporters in Mexico City of the U.S. extradition request.

Murillo did not say which state he expected to make the request, although U.S. prosecutors in New York said following Guzman's capture that it planned to make one.

From northeastern Mexico, Guzman headed the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most powerful drug smuggling outfits in the world. Fighting between drug gangs and security forces has claimed about 100,000 lives in Mexico over the past eight years.

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