Drug kingpin "El Chapo" should face justice in Mexico, U.S.: Mexican President

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Monday that notorious drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera is a "highly dangerous" criminal and should face trial in Mexico and the United States.

The Mexican president said so during an exclusive interview with national daily El Universal after Guzman was recaptured at the start of 2016 in Los Mochis city in the northeastern state of Sinaloa.

Guzman is currently an inmate at the maximum-security Altiplano jail in central Mexico, the prison he escaped from via a tunnel on July 11, 2015. He was held there for drug-trafficking and money-laundering, among other crimes.

Guzman first escaped from prison in 2001, when he was kept in the Puente Grande maximum-security prison near the city of Guadalajara in the western state of Jalisco.

To prevent Guzman from escaping for a third time, staff at Altiplano are carrying out rigorous surveillance, which, according to Guzman's lawyer, has affected the druglord's physical and mental health.

Supporters of the druglord carried out a hunger strike outside the prison on March 4 in protest of alleged mistreatment, including the druglord's sister Bernarda Guzman Loera, who told local media that she wanted her brother to be treated decently like any other prisoner.

Jose Refugio Rodriguez, head of Guzman's defense, told a local radio station on Wednesday that the druglord was looking for an agreement from the United States to speed up his extradition since the prisoner could no longer put up with the strict monitoring regime within Altiplano.

However, Mexico's National Commissioner for Security Renato Sales told local media on Monday that the druglord's special monitoring measures were in line with the law.

Mexico's government announced on Monday it would promptly process two pending extradition trial requests for Guzman from the United States. Endi