Mexico speeding efforts to ensure 'Chapo' extradited: president

[News Manager]

The Mexican government is speeding up efforts to extradite notorious drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States after his recapture earlier this month, President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Friday. Guzman was caught in early January after six months on the run following a spectacular prison break through a tunnel in his cell floor, embarrassing Pena Nieto and his government. "The order the Attorney General's office has is to speed up its work to ensure this highly dangerous criminal is extradited as soon as possible," Pena Nieto told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.




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[Remington 1858]

This is not an easy decision for the government of Mexico. On the one hand, it looks really bad if it appears that they want to extradite Guzman because no prison in Mexico can hold him and they have to turn to the "gringos" to bring him to justice. On the other hand, another escape would be an even bigger humiliation.
Narco traffickers in Mexico have a certain "Robin Hood" image among many people. And those people will resent the U.S. getting involve in their countries business.