Lucio R. for Borderland Beat -Republished from AP
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AP:
A judge in Mexico issued a provisional warrant to detain escaped drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman based on an extradition request from the United States.
A federal official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said Thursday that court hearings would be required before the extradition could ever be carried out.
Guzman also faces a host of Mexican charges following his July 11 escape through a tunnel from Mexico's highest-security prison.
The U.S. filed an extradition request for Guzman on June 25, about 2½ weeks before he escaped.
Former Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said earlier that Mexico wouldn't extradite Guzman until after he had served time for his crimes in Mexico, saying the U.S. might get El Chapo in "about 300 or 400 years.
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In the article below it eludes to the expectation that El Chapo would now face “a host of other charges following his July 11th escape.” In Mexico, it is rare that an inmate is charged with escaping.
There would have to have been deaths or injuries involved in the escape. Mexico does not prosecute for the escape itself, holding to the philosophy, that it is a natural compulsion for humans to escape confinement, thereby escaping or attempting escape is reacting in a natural human instinct and should not be punished.
Note from Lucio:
There would have to have been deaths or injuries involved in the escape. Mexico does not prosecute for the escape itself, holding to the philosophy, that it is a natural compulsion for humans to escape confinement, thereby escaping or attempting escape is reacting in a natural human instinct and should not be punished.
Let’s refresh our memory and go back to what Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam [aka #YaMeCanse] said in January 2015;
"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 — it will be a while."The United States also filed a warrant with Interpol, similar to that of Chino Antrax, if Chapo should be captured in a country outside Mexico, he will, after a hearing, be sent to the United States.