The attorney general of Mexico, Arely Gomez said Tuesday that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will be extradited to US because President Enrique Peña Nieto so agreed with that country before it would escape a second time in a maximum security prison.
In an interview published by the newspaper El Universal, Gomez explained that since, he described as "complex" "Last April the decision extradite fulfilling the legal process takes."
This results in July the first arrest warrant for extradition had in September and the second, allowing the January 10, two days after the recapture of the drug dealer in his home state of Sinaloa, "is you may be running the orders. "
"If we had not had the idea and would have been especially following the leak" criminal Altiplano, on July 11 last, "maybe still would not," he said.
The motivations to submit to the US, said that due to the implementation of the extradition treaty signed with that country and denied that the decision was due to the fear that Mexico can escape again, because it was taken before the leak.
"On the contrary, should be interpreted as a message of international cooperation in fighting crime," Gomez said, adding that "the US government is very upset with that person, the damage done to the youth and their own country ".
Regarding resistance to extradition expressed by the Government of Peña Nieto after the capture of drug lord in February 2014, said he was unaware "what the situation was" at that time the Attorney General's Office (PGR) was led by Jesus Murillo.