:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/LKJM4A7RANHOBHB4F42YAGAMMY.jpeg "El Chapo's lawyer insisted on extradition and announced a campaign to have his client tried in Mexico 1")
Jose Refugio Rodriguezlawyer of Joaquin Chapo Guzmanone of the leaders of Sinaloa Cartel and who is serving a life sentence in a US prison UNITED STATESannounced that he had launched a campaign to have his client extradited and tried in Mexico.
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Defense counsel argued under the concept of deferred delivery, the Government of Mexico could ask the United States to transfer or extradite El Chapo Guzman be prosecuted for the 11 criminal proceedings that he has in Mexican territory. He clarified that the formal extradition request will only be made with this argument.
In an interview with the agency squareexplained Refugio Rodríguez, was through a letter and a message sent to the sister of the drug trafficker, who Chapo He asked them to continue “fighting” for his transfer to Mexico where he is accused of crimes of organized crime and against health, among others.
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The lawyer pointed out that his client’s request is extremely difficult because if the United States does not want it, it has no way of going to an international court to appeal the government’s decision to Joe Biden.
“It will be a long and adversarial fight, because for the neighbor to the north, its policies are guarantees, so it does not comply with international contentious jurisdictions, nothing from the UN, the International Criminal Court or the Inter-American Court of Justice. human rights,” he told the Quadratin news agency.
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The twelve-member jury began deliberating whether the former Public Safety Secretary was collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel to smuggle drugs into the United States.
Refugio Rodríguez said he was confident to convince the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard to accept your client’s request on the basis of the treaty between Mexico there UNITED STATES for the Execution of criminal sentences.
The defense attorney for one of the most wanted drug traffickers in the United States assured that on Wednesday February 15, “the interview took place between Chapo Guzman and his family”.
On January 17, El Chapo’s lawyer mentioned that from the ADX prison in Florence, Colorado, United States, the Sinaloan capo asked his defender go with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and inform him of the alleged inhuman treatment he has suffered since his extradition to US territory during the six-year tenure of Enrique Peña Nieto, in addition to the alleged psychological torture he has suffered in prison.
This announcement was made in an interview with journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva, where he pointed out that during the six years that Chapo was confined to the United States “didn’t see the sun” there He only had six or seven phone calls with his lawyers and family.
In addition, Refugio Rodríguez explained that he had had five to six visits and, although he had a television, he assured that their human rights have been violated during his time in prison.
“Derived from this, Joaquín asked me through verbal messages of will fight for his return to Mexico“Explained the lawyer who defended him in 2016 during his extradition proceedings.
That same January 17, the Mexican Embassy in the United States shared a brief statement in which it confirmed that it received an email by the defender of El Chapo. However, he clarified that It was a letter written by the former drug dealer as announced.
“On January 10, this embassy received an email from José Refugio Rodríguez Nuñes, who claims to be the legal representative of Joaquín Guzmán Loera (…) The mail was delivered to the Chancellerybecause it is his competence”, emphasizes
Meanwhile, the head of the North America unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Roberto Velasco, discarded this week that Joaquin Guzman Loera formally requested to return to Mexico. He noted that so far the Colorado Consulate did not receive any formal request by Guzmán Loera for his return to Aztec lands, nor has he denounced the alleged violations of his human rights before the Mexican authorities.