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Thursday 3 March 2016
Lawyer: Mexican Drug lord changes mind, wants extradition
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A law- In February, Rodriguez
yer for drug lord Joaquin
“El Chapo” Guzman said gave The Associated Press
Wednesday his client now
wants to be extradited as a copy of Guzman’s testi-
soon as possible to the Unit-
ed States because guards mony in one of the cases
at a Mexican maximum-
security prison won’t let him against him. In it, the jailed
sleep.
Lawyer Jose Refugio Ro- drug lord accused prison
driguez said Guzman told
him to negotiate with U.S. authorities of torturing him
authorities for a lighter sen-
tence and confinement at “by waking him up, and
a medium-security prison.
Rodriguez told Radio For- said, “I feel like a sleep-
mula Wednesday he talk-
ed to Guzman Tuesday at walker.”
the Altiplano prison west of
Mexico City. “My head and my ears al-
“He has reached the limit,”
Rodriguez said. “It is an act ways hurt and I feel bad all
of desperation.”
“He said to try to get a ne- over,” Guzman said in the
gotiation with the American
government,” Rodriguez document.
said, adding, “We know
of agreements with other The testimony also sheds
people for confinement in
medium-security prisons ... light on the relatively per-
a much lower sentence.”
It was unclear what kind of missive visitors’ schedule
agreements Rodriguez was
referring to; though some Guzman enjoyed at the
Mexican drug suspects
have reached some form maximum-security prison
of plea deals with U.S. au-
thorities in the past, it is not before his escape in July. It
clear any have ever been
able to negotiate terms on has been reduced since he
was recaptured in January.
Guzman said that previ-
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is made to face the press in Mexico City, Mexico. A lawyer for Guz- ously he had been give an
man said Wednesday his client now wants to be extradited as soon as possible to the United
States because guards at a Mexican maximum-security prison won’t let him sleep. hour-and-a-half every day
(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) to talk to his lawyer and an
hour in the sun in a prison
patio.
where they will be held. courts. edged that guards at the Every nine days, he was al-
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico But Rodriguez suggested Altilplano prison wake Guz-
City said it does not com- it could be done in two man every four hours for a lowed a four-hour conjugal
ment on extraditions. months, presumably if Guz- head count. He escaped
Guzman’s lawyers had man dropped an estimat- the same prison in July and visit and a four-hour family
previously vowed to fight ed nine appeals his lawyers was recaptured in January.
extradition as long as pos- have filed. The harsher regime — Guz- visit.
sible, and Mexican offi- However, Rodriguez said man also has fewer visits
cials had acknowledged it “we won’t drop the (legal) than during his last stint in National security commis-
would take at least a year defense in Mexico until we prison — seems to have
and perhaps more for the have an agreement with broken him. sioner Renato Sales, whose
extradition process to work the United States.” “I saw a defeated, humili-
its way through Mexican Officials have acknowl- ated man,” Rodriguez said. responsibilities include
overseeing federal prisons,
said at a news conference
Monday that Guzman’s hu-
man rights are in no way
being violated at the Alti-
plano prison,
Facebook executive Dzodan released from jail in Brazil
BRUCE DOUGLAS America, Diego Dzodan, for the federal police in ian reais ($12,700) for every said, “arresting people with
Associated Press left a jail in Sao Paulo af- Sergipe, said investigators day it ignored the order. no connection to pending
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A ter one night in custody. A have requested content The company has not yet law enforcement investiga-
Facebook executive de- judge ruled he was wrongly from a WhatsApp messag- paid the fine, which has ris- tion is a capricious step and
tained for refusing to give detained because he was ing group as well as other en to 1 million Brazilian reais we are concerned about
law enforcement infor- not named personally in data, including geo-loca- ($250,000) in recent weeks, the effects for the people
mation about users of the the legal proceedings. tion. she said. of Brazil and innovation in
WhatsApp message ser- Another judge in the north- Investigators first contact- WhatsApp has been rolling the country.”
vice was released from jail eastern state of Sergipe ed WhatsApp — which was out a so-called end-to-end The standoff has drawn
on Wednesday, part of a had issued an arrest war- bought by Facebook in encryption system under comparisons to the FBI’s
tussle between authorities rant accusing Dzodan of 2014 — about four months which only the sender and battle with Apple following
and technology compa- repeatedly failing to com- ago but have yet to re- recipient can access the its request that the com-
nies that recalls the U.S. dis- ply with a judicial order to ceive a response, Horta content of messages and pany unlock the iPhone
pute between Apple and cooperate with an investi- said. it insists it doesn’t have the belonging to one of the
the FBI. gation into drug trafficking Starting two months ago, information requested. terrorists who carried out
Facebook’s most senior and organized crime. Mon- WhatsApp began to incur In a statement released on killings in San Bernardino,
representative in Latin ica Horta, a spokeswoman a daily fine of 50,000 Brazil- Wednesday, the company California.
