Mike Vigil, the former chief of international operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said the Mexican Supreme Court refused to hear Guzmán’s appeals for fear of retribution from the Sinaloa Cartel. Sending him to the U.S. will assure that he breaks ties with the criminal organization he once headed.

“I feel very confident that he will be convicted and his reign of terror and drug trafficking is over with,” Vigil told The WorldPost. “He will never see the beautiful mountains of Sinaloa again.”