Mexican judge suspends US extradition order for fugitive ‘Chapo’ Guzman

The United States requested Guzman’s extradition on June 25, only a couple weeks earlier than his escape, however Mexican officers stated in January that Guzman wouldn’t be handed over as a result of he should first serve time in his residence nation.

According to a Dominican newspaper, over 100 Interpol agents have carried out a range of operations in different tourist attractions in the north and east of the country as part of the search for Guzman, who escaped from a Mexican maximum security prison. Arely Gomez, Mexico’s current attorney general, said in a brief statement on Thursday that her office had received and approved the extradition request from a judge in Mexico City.

The entrance of a tunnel connected to the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary and used by drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to escape.

The U.S. government is offering a reward of 5 million U.S. dollars for anyone with details leading ot the capture of Guzman.

While some theorize Mexican officials feared “El Chapo” might expose dirty dealings among the country’s politicians, Murillo Karam publicly said he disapproved of the United States cutting deals with criminals – as it did in 2013 with Jesús Vicente “El Vicentillo” Zambada Niebla, the son of Guzman’s top lieutenant – and not sharing with Mexico any intelligence from their cooperation.

In the aftermath of the Chapo prison break, a poll released on Friday by the Mexican daily Reforma said two out of three Mexicans now disapprove of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s government.

There are at least seven indictments against Guzman in various U.S. jurisdictions, and at least one U.S. attorney’s office has said it plans to seek extradition.