Lawyers for Mexico's most notorious drug kingpin, the...

Lawyers for Mexico's most notorious drug kingpin, the fugitive Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, persuaded a judge to block his extradition to the United States, officials said.
Appeals court Judge Jorge Carenzo Rivas based his decision on a lack of sufficient evidence and on the fact Guzman could face the death penalty or life imprisonment in the United States, penalties that are absent from Mexican law, according to the daily El Universal.