BREAKING NEWS: Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman extradited from Mexico to US

BBC REPORTS

Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been extradited to the US, the Mexican governments annnounced on Thursday.

US officials confirmed he was on a flight to New York from Cuidad Juarez.

Mr Guzman, who could face life in a US prison, is wanted on charges of drug trafficking and smuggling vast amounts of drugs into the country.

The leader of the Sinaloa cartel was facing two extradition requests – one from California and another from Texas.

Last year he was moved to a prison in Ciudad Juarez, which lies just across the border from El Paso in Texas, but authorities at the time denied the transfer was a precursor to extradition.

Mr Guzman has been fighting to stay in Mexico but his appeals were rejected.

He was under close watch, having previously broken out of two Mexican high-security jails.

The extradition to the United States of “El Chapo”Guzman brings to an end one of the most notorious drug lord sagas of modern times. Believed to have amassed a billion dollar fortune through the illegal drug trade, Guzman was always likely to make headlines.

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