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Can someone clue me in on why he is in US? I understand all of his crimes. I am just curious how US is allowed to charge someone from another country? If, say, someone from US was running guns to Mexico --- are they allowed to charge them? I was reading a couple of articles online and guess I'd never really given this much thought before. I understand maybe Mexico felt they could no longer contain him. I also understand that they wanted to give him to Obama and not Trump. But was just wondering about this type of thing. 
Mr. Guzmán faces charges stemming from six separate indictments in the United States. In the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, where he is expected to face prosecution, he is charged with the manufacture and distribution of a range of drugs, the use of firearms, money laundering and running an ongoing criminal enterprise. The indictment, first filed in 2009, has been updated three times since then.
“The fact that we delivered him to Obama is a clear political message that says this is a government we have long collaborated and worked closely with,” said Jorge Chabat, an expert on security at CIDE, a Mexico City research institution. “By not waiting to send him to Trump after his inauguration, it is a subtle statement saying, ‘We could do this for you, too, in the future, if we have a good relationship.’”
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