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		</div><p>The extradition of convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States can move forward, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department has ruled.</p>
<p>But the process can still be appealed, meaning it could be weeks or months before the Sinaloa cartel leader may be sent north.</p>
<p>Guzman’s lawyers now have 30 days to appeal against the decision.</p>
<p>The department said on Friday that the United States has guaranteed Guzman would not face the death penalty, which is not applied in Mexico.</p>
<p>Friday’s ruling covered an extradition request from a Texas federal court related to charges of conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine and marijuana, money laundering, arms possession and murder, and another extradition request from a federal court in California.</p>
<p>In all, Guzman faces charges from seven US federal prosecutors including in Chicago, New York, Miami and San Diego.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, Jose Refugio Rodriguez, one of Guzman’s lawyers, said that if the government approved extradition they would pursue an injunction.</p>
<p>“We are going to do it, but not right away, because it’s a process you have to fight with arguments,” he said. “We have 30 days.”</p>
<p>Guzman was arrested in January after almost six months on the run following his escape from a maximum-security prison through a mile-long tunnel that opened to the floor of his shower.</p>
<p>He had already escaped once before in 2001 and spent more than a decade as one of the world’s most wanted fugitives until he was recaptured in 2014.</p>
<p>After his latest capture, authorities returned him to the same Altiplano prison where he had pulled off his brazen tunnel escape. They said they had reinforced the prison’s security.</p>
<p>But earlier this month, authorities suddenly transferred Guzman to a prison on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, near the US border, a move they said was due to work on improvements at Altiplano.</p>
<p>Rodriguez is trying to get Guzman returned to Altiplano, arguing that the transfer hurt his defence because it is hundreds of miles away from the court handling the case.</p>
<p>He said a judge told them Guzman could be sent back to Altiplano if prison authorities determine the conditions are right.</p>
<p>Authorities have said Guzman can be held safely in Juarez where, like in Altiplano, he is under 24-hour surveillance through cameras in his cell and on the helmets of his guards.</p>
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