Perhaps the world’s most infamous drug kingpin, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has been extradited from Mexico and brought to the United States. While El Chapo has escaped from two different Mexican prisons in the past, authorities believe that the United States prison he is being held in will prove sufficient to keep him incarcerated. The prison, located in New York City, is sometimes referred to as “the Guantanamo Bay of New York.” Located south of Chinatown, the Metropolitan Correctional Center has held many notorious criminals over the years, including mafia dons, ponzi schemers, terrorists, and arms dealers. Described as a giant concrete fortress, authorities are confident that his incarceration at the prison will prevent him from conducting further business or escaping. The 59-year-old El Chapo was in his cell in a prison in Ciudad Juarez, a border city, when he was surprised by the guards who arrived and told him he was being extradited. El Chapo asked if he was being brought to another Mexican prison as he was handcuffed and removed from the cell, apparently revealing that he was unaware of the plan to extradite him to the United States. The move also left El Chapo’s legal team at a loss, leaving them to protest that the move was illegal and filing complaints considered to be symbolic with international human rights organizations. Despite the protests of his lawyers, however, El Chapo was put on a helicopter at the Juarez…
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