United States submitted an extradition petition for "El Chapo", two weeks before his escape

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article

[ Subject Matter: El Chapo, extradition
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The secretary of exterior relations, received on the 25th of June a petition for the formal extradition of Guzman Loera to be processed for the crime of criminal association in a Federal Court of California

El Chapos preferred form of tunnel transport: motorcycles on rails

Reporter: Milenio Digital

The Attorney General of the Republic, Arely Gomez, said that the Government of the United States solicited a petition for the formal extradition of Joaquin Guzman Loera on the 25th of June, 17 days before "El Chapo" escaped from Altiplano prison.

During a hearing before the twin house Commission for Security, the Attorney Arely Gomez said that the Secretary of external relations had received a diplomatic notice in which they solicit for the extradition of "El Chapo" to be charged with criminal association in order to import cocaine, in a Federal Court of California.

Arely Gomez said that he gave instructions to the areas of the PGR to analyse the petition, to attach the requisite legal requirements of the international treaty between both countries, and submit it before the Federal Judiciary.

Four day after initiating the proceedings, the PGR said that there have been significant advances, among them forensic evidence, of which there were 186, 143 of those were found in the tunnel and the rest in cell number 20.

Original article in Spanish at Milenio