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    Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, has sent another letter to Judge Brian Cogan requesting extradition to Mexico. According to the document, the once most-wanted man in the world insisted on receiving “equal treatment under the law” in his case and also requested to be tried in his home country on the pending charges against him. The drug lord has been serving a life sentence since 2019 for various drug trafficking offenses and has been incarcerated at the ADX Floren
     

‘El Chapo’ Guzmán requests extradition to Mexico from the United States

4 May 2026 at 18:45

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, has sent another letter to Judge Brian Cogan requesting extradition to Mexico. According to the document, the once most-wanted man in the world insisted on receiving “equal treatment under the law” in his case and also requested to be tried in his home country on the pending charges against him. The drug lord has been serving a life sentence since 2019 for various drug trafficking offenses and has been incarcerated at the ADX Florence supermax federal prison in Colorado since then.

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Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán during his arrest in Mexico City on January 8, 2016.
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