Drug lord ‘El Chapo’ wants sleep, welcomes extradition to U.S., lawyer says Tom Steele
A girl walks along the perimeter of the Altiplano prison, where Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is being held. (Yuri Cortez/Agence France-Presse)
From The Associated Press:
MEXICO CITY — A lawyer for drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán said Wednesday that his client now wants to be extradited as soon as possible to the United States because guards at a Mexican maximum-security prison won’t let him sleep.
Lawyer Jose Refugio Rodriguez said Guzmán told him to negotiate with U.S. authorities for a lighter sentence and confinement at a medium-security prison.
Rodriguez said he talked to Guzmán on Tuesday at the Altiplano prison west of Mexico City.
“He has reached the limit,” Rodriguez said. “It is an act of desperation.”
“He said to try to get a negotiation with the American government,” Rodriguez said, adding, “We know of agreements with other people for confinement in medium-security prisons … a much lower sentence.”
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said it does not comment on extraditions.
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán
Guzmán’s lawyers had previously vowed to fight extradition as long as possible, and Mexican officials had acknowledged it would take at least a year and perhaps more for the extradition process to work its way through Mexican courts.
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