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Any extradition request and its timing will be determined at the highest levels of the Justice Department, almost certainly with input from the State Department, said Marcos Jiménez, a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida whose cases have included several high-ranking Colombian drug cartel figures who were brought to the state for trial.
While those cases had their own political complications, the fate of Guzman, one of the world’s most-wanted drug traffickers, is likely to be even more complicated. “There is going to be a lot of diplomatic back and forth,” Jiménez said.
