By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press
| 9:41 a.m. May 9, 2016
MEXICO
CITY (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the extradition of drug lord
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman can move ahead, Mexico's Judicial Council
said Monday. But the country's foreign ministry must still approve it
and the defense can appeal.
The
council, which oversees Mexico's federal judges and tribunals, said the
judge, who it did not name, had agreed that the legal requirements laid
out in the extradition treaty between the two countries had been met.
The ministry has 20 days to decide whether to approve Guzman's extradition to the United States.
Any extradition attempt can be delayed or stopped by a request to the court by attorneys for the Sinaloa cartel leader.
Guzman
was moved Saturday from a prison outside Mexico City to one in Ciudad
Juarez near the U.S. border. Questions have arisen on both sides of the
border about the decision to relocate the convicted drug lord to a
region that is one of his cartel's strongholds.
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