The road of El Chapo United States.
It has begun the process of extradition of El Chapo Guzman United States.
The process of extradition of El Chapo Guzman United States has already begun, but could last several months.
The future of Joaquin Guzman Loera, El Chapo, has entered a tunnel. Every day that passes, his extradition to the United States is closer. And, four months after his arrest, and it seems very difficult to escape this fate. A Mexican federal judge just from considering his transfer as required Embassy in Washington. The judicial decision based on the request of a California court for the crime of conspiracy to sell cocaine, is a new lost battle for the biggest drug dealer in the world, but in any case their immediate departure. The process will be long and full of resources.
If something feared El Chapo is grieving in a US prison. There, neither his power nor his murderous corruption capacity take effect. Aware of this, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel has launched a battery of court orders to stop the transfer. Coordinated by a team of 13 lawyers and a virtually inexhaustible funding, the strategy has in mind the case of the bloody Edgar Valdes Villareal, La Barbie, whose shipment was authorized by the Mexican justice system in 2011, but was not consummated until October 2015. something similar can happen now.
Although the judge has given the green light to the extradition, the process is far from over. Still lack the summary pass into the hands of the Ministry of Foreign and from there in 20 days, the transfer is granted. Once authorized, the amparo and its corresponding application for review be opened. A process infested legal twists and turns that may be delayed for months.
This time plays against the government. The history of El Chapo and the vast ability of the Sinaloa cartel to evade prison security, they fear an escape attempt. The Executive is aware of this and has tightened the siege. This same weekend, in a surprise move, the prisoner has been transferred to a prison in Ciudad Juarez (Chihuahua). The shipment was presented as part of the rotation imposed by the security protocol. Nevertheless, some experts have drawn attention to the risk of taking him to a penitentiary lower level than the Altiplano, where he escaped in July. Fueling doubts not only that prison is one of the worst qualified the federal level, but in March 2014 fell into the ridiculous when five prisoners escaped quietly over the wall with ropes and hooks. Now, according to the authorities, security has been extreme and an operating elite has taken over the prisoner.
In any case, a new leak would be a blow of such magnitude for President Enrique Peña Nieto is hardly conceivable that their change of location has been decided lightly. El Chapo is a matter of state for Mexico. Both his stay in prison, during the process, as sent to the United States are goals that transcend space of prison policy. A failure on either side of the rope drag with them the whole government.
