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Navarette: Mexicans skepticism fuels El Chapo legend
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SAN DIEGO — U.S. officials want to extradite the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who was captured last week by Mexican marines and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents. Sounds like a fine idea. The 56-year-old leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel was arrested before, in 1993, and sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security prison in the Mexican state of Jalisco.