MEXICO CITY — Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the notorious drug lord
known as El Chapo who twice slipped out of high-security Mexican prisons and
into criminal legend, was extradited to the United States on Thursday night,
officials said, drawing to a close a decades-long quest to prosecute the head
of one of the world’s largest narcotics organizations.
A federal court in Mexico denied an appeal by Mr. Guzmán’s
lawyers to block the extradition, clearing the way for his transfer to the
American authorities in New York, where he faces numerous charges for his role
as the chieftain of the Sinaloa cartel. Mr. Guzmán was put on a plane on
Thursday in Ciudad Juárez, near the border with Texas, and arrived in the
United States on President Obama’s final night in office.
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