Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has pleaded not guilty to 17 separate charges in a New York court.

El Chapo was surprisingly extradited from Mexico earlier in the week and faces life in a US prison if found guilty.

It will be alleged that he ran the world's largest drug-trafficking organisation during a decades-long criminal career.

Guzman, 59, arrived in a small jet at Long Island's MacArthur Airport after nightfall on Thursday from a prison in the city of Juarez.