Drug lord El Chapo requests transfer from US prison to Mexico

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, has formally requested a transfer from his US prison cell back to Mexico. The notorious drug lord, currently serving a life sentence in an American supermax facility, has written letters to the court describing his life imprisonment as unjust. Guzmán is now seeking to have his case for repatriation to Mexico reviewed by authorities. Guzmán was extradited to the United States in 2017 and convicted in 2019 on multiple charges including drug trafficking and murder conspiracy. The Sinaloa cartel, which he helped establish, became one of the world's most powerful drug trafficking organizations, smuggling billions of dollars worth of narcotics into the United States over decades.