Just days after Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was moved to a prison near the US border, a Mexican federal judge has ruled that the notorious drug lord can be extradited to the US to face criminal charges Guzman’s lawyers are fighting the decision. They say that several appeals remain pending and that any effort to send him to the U.S. now would violate his human rights. El Chapo faces a long list of criminal charges in the US, ranging from money laundering to drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder in New York City, Miami and Chicago and more Russia Today reports: The Sinaloa Cartel boss was recaptured in January after a months-long manhunt following his spectacular escape from a maximum-security prison in July 2015. El Chapo (“Shorty”) used a mile-long tunnel dug by his henchmen to reach a motorcycle that was waiting for him and disappeared. The prison break reportedly cost him $50 million in bribes. On Saturday, Guzman was moved to a prison in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua – just across the border from the US – prompting rumors of the impending extradition. A spokesman for the Mexican president told Reuters the transfer was due to upgrades at the Altiplano maximum-security [...]