Mexico approved the extradition of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States on Friday after receiving guarantees he would not face the death penalty, and the kinkgpin's lawyers vowed to block the move.
Juan Pablo Badillo, one of Guzman's lawyers, told Reuters he would file "many" legal challenges in the coming days, which could delay the drug lord's eventual extradition forever weeks.
Guzman, head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was the world's most wanted drug kingpin until his capture in January, six months after he broke out of a high-security penitentiary in central Mexico through a mile-long tunnel.
Mexico's foreign ministry said he would face charges including drug trafficking, money laundering and murder in U.S. federal courts in California and Texas.
Asked whether he would file legal challenges on behalf of Guzman, Badillo said: "Of course. Five, 10, whatever is necessary."
Guzman's escape last year was a major embarrassment to President Enrique Pena Nieto, who entered office amid a bloody war between the government and drug cartels launched by his predecessor. Pena Nieto dialed back cooperation with the United States after taking office in 2013, but soon after Guzman's recapture in January he said he had taken steps to ensure the kingpin would be extradited as soon as possible.
Earlier this month, Guzman was moved from a jail in central Mexico to a prison in Ciudad Juarez on the U.S. border, seen as a step closer to extradition.
Mexican authorities say they tracked Guzman down after he sought to make a movie about his life and met with Mexican actress Kate del Castillo and Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn, who published an interview with the drug boss in Rolling Stone.
[The Sun] A NAKED man who jumped into the big cat enclosure at a Chilean zoo in a desperate 'suicide bid' survived - but only after the lions attacking him were shot dead.
Santiago authorities confirmed the two beasts were killed as they mauled the 20-year-old who had broken into their compound early on Saturday.
The man, who has not been named, was accidently hit with a tranquiliser as zookeepers frantically tried to put the lions to sleep. He taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and was said to be in a "grave" condition.
Catherine Moreau was watching a movie on her iPad on a flight to Montreal when she felt what she thought was a wire brushing against her. At least it wasn't snakes.
"I brushed [it] away and it started tickling me again. That's when I noticed the tarantula," Moreau told CBC News. Does she have an island somewhere?
"I hit it to get it off me before it bit." What's that climbing up my wall? Black and hairy very small. Where's he gone now I can't see. Hope that he's as scared as me. Boris the Spider.
Now Moreau is asking Air Transat for a partial refund over her encounter with the spider.
The tarantula that climbed her leg was one of two on a Montreal-bound Air Transat flight from Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, on April 18, the airline and the union representing its flight attendants have confirmed. Didn't stay in their seats and fasten seatbelts.
Passengers screamed and stood on their seats after learning they shared the cabin with the eight-legged critters.
Julie Roberts, vice-president of Air Transat's flight attendant union, said flight attendants "did what they could to calm people down."
"They gave first aid to the person who said that a spider climbed [her] legs," she said. Flight attendants also asked passengers to put on their shoes and cover their ankles.
Moreau wants the four flight tickets for her family partially reimbursed by Air Transat. The incident left her scratched and her 11-year-old daughter suffering from shock, she said.
According to Moreau, after she brushed the spider off her leg, it hid under her daughter's luggage. Her husband came and grabbed it and asked for a bag from the cabin crew to hold the spider.
"It took a long time from when we screamed to get a bag to put it in," Moreau said.
That delay was only the beginning of her grievances with Air Transat.
Her daughter has been suffering from nightmares. In addition, Moreau was promised a report from Air Transat so she could identify the spider in case the scratches led to health issues. She never got the report.
Did the scratches lead to health issues?
She said she sent the airline a registered letter about her complaint, which they signed for a week ago, but still hasn't heard back.
She also claims she was stopped from taking a photograph of the spider that would have helped her identify the species.
While the tarantula that crawled up her leg remained in custody, the other spider continued to roam the plane before being recovered by a federal agent once the plane landed at Montreal's Trudeau Airport.
It's sad that today's life makes me think this way, but part of me wonders if Ms. Moreau brought the spiders onto the plane...
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Indeed Doc. It's the old theory of I am bring two large, albeit mostly friendly, poisonous arachnids on board my flight, the odds of spiders and jacket wallahs approaches zero.
Bookmaker William Hill has cut its odds of Britons voting to remain in the European Union in a June 23 referendum to 1/6, the shortest odds to date and indicating a probability of 85 percent.
"During the week just gone, the odds for 'remain' have halved from 1/3 to 1/6 as many political punters seem to have decided they know what the result will be," William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe said on Saturday. I wonder what all these Americans who want USA to be "just like Europe", think about this?
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Got to remember, the US was created and expanded by people who either left or were thrown out by the Euros. We should have remembered that in the 20th Century. Ah, the allure of being approved by those who still think they're our betters. That would be our ruling caste, not Joe the Plumber.
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It used to be that exceptional America had no classes, no tribes, no 500-year old scores to settle. [Well, except for the Irish. And the Catholics. Maybe a few Italians. But most of those folk wanted to be "Americans" not Italian-American, or Irish-American.]
That's one of the things that made America "exceptional".
And what the progressives are working so hard to undo.
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Yes Bobby!!!. America first. The big mistake in all parts if the world are these groups who wish to remain unchanged. Bringing all the old baggage with them. Power to their people and not to others. So all suffer from lack of unity. All in conflict with other power seeking groups. A melting pot not a salad.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
