Former governor of Mexican state Veracruz Javier Duarte sits at a police station after he was detained in a hotel in Panajachel, Guatemala April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Danilo Ramirez
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The extradition of a former state governor for Mexico's ruling party arrested in Guatemala at the weekend on corruption charges could take up to a year, a senior Mexican official said on Monday.
Javier Duarte, who until last year governed Veracruz state for President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), became a symbol of corruption in Mexico and his case is highly politicized with elections looming.
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