Trump secures the extradition of 29 top cartel leaders from Mexico to be prosecuted in the US
29 high profile cartel leaders have been extradited from Mexico to the US due to a recent cooperation between the Trump administration and Mexico.
Among these cartel leaders is the notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was was the mastermind and brain behind the 1985 murder of US DEA agent, Enrique Camarena.
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According to the Mexican government, these individuals were transferred from several prisons across Mexico before being flown from an airport from Mexico to eight different cities in the US on Thursday.
The move comes after the Trump administration intensified it’s crackdown on drug trafficking organization seeking to halt their operations.
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Among the people transferred were also members of five of the six Mexican criminal organizations recently tagged as “foreign terrorist organizations” by Trump’s administration.
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