Court Confirms Halt to Mexico Drug Lord Chapo Guzman's Extradition Order Agence France-Presse
go to original August 11, 2015

A Mexican court upheld a ruling suspending the arrest warrant to extradite escaped drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States, in a setback for government lawyers.

A judge had granted the suspension of the warrant last month after Guzman`s attorneys filed a petition to throw out the order issued by another court.

The extradition order had been issued at the request of prosecutors three weeks after Guzman made a spectacular escape from a maximum security prison.

Guzman has been a fugitive since July 11 when he slipped out of his prison cell through a tunnel.

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Related: Mexicans Question Whether 'El Chapo' Really Escaped Through Prison Tunnel (NPR)

Related: Mexican Journalist: 'El Chapo' Turned Prison Cell Into an Office (NBC News)

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