Jose Manuel Merino, of the advocate general's office, said that, beneath Mexican law, Guzman had the appropriate to address adjoin his extradition.
The action was formally launched on Sunday, two canicule afterwards Guzman had been recaptured.
He had been on the run for six months back a adventuresome jailbreak in July.
Appeal process
The US has filed a address for Guzman to be extradited to face accuse of smuggling all-inclusive amounts of drugs into the country.
Guzman, who was alleged Accessible Enemy Amount One by the Chicago Crime Commission in 2013, has been accusable by at atomic seven US federal commune courts.
But Mr Merino said that Guzman could not be extradited to the US beeline away.
Speaking on Mexican radio, he explained that Interpol admiral went to Altiplano bastille on Sunday and served Guzman with two arrest warrants for his extradition.
He said that Guzman's advocate could abode appeals adjoin the adjustment and that the action could be delayed appreciably depending on how angrily they fought his extradition.
Juan Pablo Badillo, one of Guzman's lawyers, said he would yield his address all the way to Mexico's accomplished court.
Deadly raid
Guzman was arrested on Friday in Los Mochis, a bank boondocks in his home accompaniment of Sinaloa, in north-western Mexico.Five of Guzman's men were dead in the operation.
He was taken to Altiplano jail, from which he able in July through a 1.5km-long (one mile) tunnel.
Mexico's civic aegis abettor said the bastille "fully meets all-embracing [security] protocols" and that improvements had been fabricated back Guzman's escape.
He aswell said that a "rigorous surveillance scheme" had been put in abode to adviser the admission of bastille agents and visitors.
Leaked aegis footage of Guzman's bastille breach showed how guards bootless to ascertain his escape until added than 20 account afterwards it had happened, admitting the complete of loud banging advancing from his cell.
The bastille administrator and a amount of guards were arrested in affiliation with his escape.
Probe into Penn role
Mexico is aswell because whether to investigate Hollywood amateur Sean Penn, who interviewed Guzman anon afterwards his jailbreak.
Unnamed Mexican admiral accept said Penn's abstruse affair helped advance them to the fugitive.
In the Rolling Stone article, the aftereffect of a seven-hour meeting, Penn and Guzman altercate assorted topics, including biologic trafficking.
Penn said the affair was set up by Mexican extra Kate del Castillo.
The extra was approached by Guzman's attorneys afterwards publishing an accessible letter to Guzman in which she alleged on him to "traffic in love" instead of in drugs,
Mexican prosecutors said Guzman capital her to aftermath a blur about his life.
Del Castillo has not fabricated any accessible comments back the advertisement of the Rolling Stone article.
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