Friday, January 6, 2023 | 6:33 p.m.
Ovidio “El Ratón” Guzmán, son of jailed drug trafficker Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán, arrested on Thursday, achieved a judicial suspension against possible immediate extradition to the United States, which requires him for drug trafficking.
“The ex officio suspension of acts consisting of deportation, expulsion, extradition and its execution is decreed outright” in such a way that “it is not handed over to the government of the United States of America, nor to any other State,” says the decision of a judge.
Washington claims Ovidio Guzmán and his brother Joaquín for conspiracy to export cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana to that country, and offered a reward of five million dollars for each one.
The Mexican foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, had already ruled out an express extradition of Guzmán to the United States yesterday.
Today he insisted that the Mexican extradition law “sets a series of deadlines for the elements to be presented” and “evidence against” the accused.
“We estimate that this will happen between four and six weeks from now by the United States, which submitted the extradition request (in September 2019),” Ebrard said at a press conference.
The Mexican government accuses Guzmán of crimes against health and related to firearms, although there are also investigations related to organized crime, said the Secretary of Public Security, Roca Icela Rodríguez.
Guzmán was arrested in the city of Culiacán, in an operation that left 10 soldiers and 19 suspected criminals dead, according to the authorities.
