2016-06-30 08:49:00

Mexican drug lord Guzman using legal process to fight extradition


(Vatican Radio) A Federal Judge in Mexico has temporarily halted the extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the jailed drug lord who has already escaped custody twice and who had been cleared for extradition to the United States. 

Listen to James Blears' report from Mexico:

Two Federal Judges and Mexico`s Foreign Ministry have already approved the extradition to the United States of thrice jailed and twice escaped Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who`s back under lock and key in Mexico.  He`s been transferred to a maximum security penitentiary in the Border City of Juarez,  right by El Paso Texas. 

But his highly paid and experienced lawyers who are well versed in the cumbersome Mexican legal system which is still mired under mountains of paperwork and written submissions, have fulfilled a promise to work up a veritable snowstorm of injunctions. They`re cogently arguing that there`s no direct evidence against the world`s most powerful alleged drug trafficker, to substantiate the charges of murder and drug trafficking. 

And that the Statute of Limitations has expired on many of those charges. New York, Chicago, San Diego, Miami and others are vying for the rights to try Guzman, who`s  done an interview with US actor Sean Penn, and wants a blockbuster movie to made about his life and times.








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