MEXICO CITY: Mexico aims to extradite drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States by February, a senior official said Friday (Saturday in Manila), but his lawyer promised to “fight to the end.”

“We hope [to do it] in January or February,” National Security Commissioner Renato Sales Heredia told TV network Televisa, giving Mexico’s clearest estimate yet of when it could send the imprisoned Sinaloa cartel chief across the border.

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