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"I'm aware they're going to ask me, and it won't be a problem
to do all the paperwork to determine at the time what will be
most convenient," Attorney General Jesus Murillo told reporters
in Mexico City of the U.S. extradition request.
Murillo did not say which state he expected to make the request,
although U.S. prosecutors in New York said following Guzman's
capture that it planned to make one.
From northeastern Mexico, Guzman headed the Sinaloa Cartel, one
of the most powerful drug smuggling outfits in the world.
Fighting between drug gangs and security forces has claimed
about 100,000 lives in Mexico over the past eight years.
Captured for the first time in 1993, Guzman escaped his Mexican
prison in 2001 and went on to feature in the Forbes list of
billionaires thanks to his success with the Sinaloa Cartel.
He is wanted in the United States on a variety of criminal
charges including cocaine smuggling, money laundering and
running a criminal enterprise, which included murder.
(Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz; Editing by Ken Wills)
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