The bid marks a reversal from President Enrique Pena Nieto’s refusal to send Guzman across the border prior to the drug lord’s July escape from the maximum-security prison.
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Guzman’s lawyers has 3 days to present arguments against extradition and twenty days to present supporting evidence, beyond the many other appeals they have already started filing.
Guzman narrowly escaped under a blaze of bullets but the raid, in the northern state of Durango, was a major breakthrough in the hunt.
The head of the Sinaloa Cartel, who was recaptured Friday, was keen to have his life story told.
Officials at the attorney general’s office were not immediately available for comment on the article. El Chapo has tried to cultivate a Robin Hood persona for the region of Mexico he controls.
“I think the case to be made privately is ‘fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”, said Andrew Porter, now in private practice. “We could promise a fair and impartial trial”. On Sunday, the Mexican government announced that the extradition process for Guzman had formally begun.
Juan Pablo, his lawyer said on Saturday that “El Chapo’s” extradition would not be possible. A Mexican security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the drug lord is being held in a different cell and that the tunnel he built and the cell he escaped from had been destroyed.
On Monday, Mexican officials said the process to extradite him to the USA could take at least a year. Five suspects were killed and six others were arrested.
One marine is injured and is helped by his colleague.
The photographs that appear to show Penn and del Castillo arriving at an airport, then at a hotel, and greeting the men who apparently took them to a small airstrip, from which they flew to the jungle camp to meet Guzman.
On Saturday, Rolling Stone published an article on their website written by Penn featuring an interview done via video messaging with the drug lord. “Sean Penn is not someone I spend a lot of time thinking about”, said Rubio.
Guzman, an adept tunnel-builder who previously went on the run for 13 years, managed to give police the slip one final time, escaping through a storm drain, but was caught attempting to flee in a stolen auto.
Mexican authorities have attributed more than 30,000 deaths to Guzman’s drug reign. “Drug trafficking? That’s false”.
But Sean Penn’s interview with Guzman has attracted some criticism, with White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough saying some revelations drawn from the piece were “maddening”.
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Mexico’s government was aware of the October interview with the legendary boss of the Sinaloa drugs cartel and was closely monitoring Penn’s movements, a second government source told the news agency.
