MEXICO – After Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto's announcement about the urgency in his administration to extradite the Sinaloa cartel leader "El Chapo" Guzmán to the U.S., Joaquín Guzmán Loera might play one last dirty trick on Peña Nieto's administration.

According to Proceso, José Refugio Rodríguez Núñez, who's the head of "El Chapo" Guzmán's legal team, assures that "the capo has already hired a California law firm to negotiate his conditional U.S. extradition with a reduced sentence. Which is why the cartel leader has been stalling his extradition with legal protections, he needs time and he's getting it."

The weekly news magazine stated that it's the Sinaloa cartel leader's goal to stall the extradition process as much as he can in order to negotiate with the U.S., which is exactly the reason why Peña Nieto wants to extradite him as soon as possible.

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Translated by: edgar.martinez@sandiegored.com