Mexico handed over 29 drugs of drugs to the United States, including one of the most sought after FBI, Rafael Caro Quintero, in what observers say “showing compliance” of Mexican authorities. The handover comes just a few days before 25 percent tariffs The Mexican import of US President Donald Trump should take effect.
Trump has been a long target for what says Mexico is a drug cartel control. In some parts of the country, he called them “the quasi of the government organization”, and especially the wrong Mexico, especially for the flow of very infectious fentanis, synthetic opioids, in the US in recent years.
Here’s more about what happened and why this is happening now:
What did Mexico agree to do?
On Thursday, Mexico handed over 29 cartels that were already held in Mexican prisons in Mexican prisons. They boarded planes at the airport north of Mexico City and taken to eight different American cities, news agencies said, citing the Mexican government.
The US confirmed that she had taken 29 prisoners to custody in a statement from the Pamela Bonda Attorney General. So far, there are some details about where they are held.
The US Ministry of Justice has published a list of federal courts to charge 29 defendants, but it is not clear when this will happen. Everyone is facing accusations that include recovery, drug trade, murder, illegal use of firearms and money laundering.
At least two extraordinary men will be brought to a federal court in Brooklyn on Friday, according to an unnamed source that spoke with Reuters news agency.
This is the biggest handover of prisoners in Mexico in years. From 2019 to 2023. Mexico has extradited about 65 people in the US, Reuters reported.
It is unclear whether any formal extradition procedure came after the Mexican government called the surgery “transmission”.
Who is deported from Mexico to the US?
The US Ministry of Justice has published a list out of 29 defendants.
It included some of the most powerful cartel leaders involved in the cocaine and heroin trade decades ago, as well as the new “Narcos” accused of relocation of fentaline to the United States, according to the Ministry of Justice. Narko is involved in the illegal drug trade.
Some of those who have been handed over now are:
Caro Quintero
Caro Quintero, 72, was co -founder of Cartel Guadalajara, who was known for delivering marijuana in the United States, and was convicted of killing a US drug agent from 1985, Enrique “Kiki” Camaren. Guadalajara was one of the most powerful cartels in Latin America in the 1980s, and served his job with Pabl Escobar, the late Colombian Lord drug.
After his conviction in 1985 for the abduction and murder of Camaren, he remained in prison until 2013, when the court abolished his 40-year sentence, concluding that he was judged irregularly. He allegedly returned to the drug store and stayed at large for several years, while the US sought to extradite him and offer a $ 20 million prize for his arrest.
Caro Quintero remodeled in Mexico in Mexico in Mexico in Mexico. He is one of the suspects who are expected to appear in a court in Brooklyn on Friday.
Brothers Trevino
The Mexican media reported that two former Los Zetas-Braće Cartel leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, also called the Z-40, and Omar Trevino Morales, also called Z-42 and USA.
The Mexican authorities arrested Miguel, 54, on charges of involving organized crime, drug trade, torture, money laundering and illegal use of firearms in 2013. Omar, 51, was arrested on a charges for money laundering and a violation of the Federal Weapon Act in Mexico in 2015.
The US accused the Trevino brothers of bringing from prison to Zetas Split Fraction, a northeast cartel.
Antonio Cervantes and El Gurito
US authorities have been identified by Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Sinalo Cartel as responsible for bringing in the USA in the US in recent years.
Jalisco leader, Antonio Oseguer Cervantes, 66, is also handed over. Cervantes is a brother of Oseguer Cervantes, a drug lord, also known as “El Mencho”. Now they have offered a $ 15 million prize for all information about El Mencho’s accommodation.
Jose Angel “El Guerito” Canobbio, a figure associated with Cartel Sinalo, was also handed over to the US authorities on Thursday, the Mexican media reported and reported Reuters.
Why is this happening now?
Trump announced 25 percent of tariffs About the goods imported from Mexico and Canada in the executive orders signed on February 1. The President confirmed that the tariffs were come into force Tuesday.
Trump said that one of the reasons for tariffs was the failure of Mexico and Canada to prevent street remedies like fental to get into the United States. “The drugs are still pouring into our country from Mexico and Canada at very high and unacceptable levels,” he wrote on Thursday in social mail for truth, confirming that the tariffs would be imposed next week.
In addition, January 20, the day when Trump was inaugurated was signed Executive command This denotes international drug cartels as a “terrorist organization”.
The text of the order stated: “In certain parts of Mexico, they function as the quasi of government entities.”
This month Trump’s administration labeled Eight Latin American criminal and trade drugs as a “global terrorist organization”. This is done in the federal register notice And he differentiated from the Executive Order because he appointed specific groups: Too de Aragua, Mara Salvatrucha (also known as MS-13), Cartel Sinalo, Jalisco New Generation Carte, Cartes Unidos, northeast cartel, Gulf cartel and La Nueva Familia Michhoacana.
Both Mexico and Canada They said they were doing everything they could to reduce the illegal drug trade.
President Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, at a press conference on January 21, said Mexico would be fully cooperating with the US in the fight against drug trade, but she will not support the chances of sending the US trunk to impose damage trade. “What we insist is the defense of our sovereignty and our independence,” she said.
