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Mexico : U.S. Can Have El Chapo in About 300 Years

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Wed Jan 28, 2015 at 07:38:00 AM EST
Tags: El Chapo Guzman (all tags)
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Mexico now says the U.S. is unlikely to play host to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman anytime soon.

Mexico's Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam yesterday told the Associated Press he expected a new extradition request by the U.S. to be filed yesterday or today. He also made it quite clear they aren't turning him over , at least not for 300 or 400 years:

"I could accept extradition, but at the time that I choose. 'El Chapo' must stay here to complete his sentence, and then I will extradite him," Murillo Karam told The Associated Press in an interview. "So about 300 or 400 years later — it will be a while."

He said it's a matter of "national sovereignty." [More...]

[To] extradite him to the United States would save a lot of costs to the country, but [he]defended his stay in Mexico as a matter of sovereignty until the completion of all proceedings against [him.]

He clarified that the extradition procedure is appropriate when there are security issues warrant or flight risk, which he said, "does not exist", even though El Chapo and escaped in 2001 from another Mexican prison, also maximum security.

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