The narrative is transformed. There are no longer traces that this resistance, prolonged over time, that criminals purge sentences in Mexican prisons or face their processes, before being extradited to the United States.
Although it never meant a kind of law carved in stone, since many bosses ended before the courts north of the Rio Bravo, with the “transfer” or “delivery” of 29 drug lords, it is a qualitative leap of still uncertain consequences.
According to the Department of Justice, some of the capos, such as Rafael Caro Quintero or Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, could face the life imprisonment and, where appropriate, the death penalty.
This is novel, although who knows if viable, because he never extradited anyone who could face such punishments, since they are not registered in national laws.
It is argued that, being a delivery, the respective locks would not apply, although it must be borne in mind that this will have to be determined in the respective judgments that each of the 29 expelled will face.
It should be noted that the urgency prevailed, that is, it was decided to invoke the National Security Law to get rid of the motley legal procedures, leaving amparo suspensions without any effect.
Beyond that supposed or certain liberations at the door, which would operate from the Judiciary, of heads of the Cartels of Sinaloa, Jalisco, Zetas and Michoacana family, are invoked, the obvious thing is that they were offered to try to satisfy Donald Trump’s voracious appetite, who has managed to use the weakness of the Mexican authorities, in what refers to safety, to obtain pretendas and trophies.
In the short term we will attest if the transfers have an impact on the structure of the cartels and the emergence of alternative leaderships, although many of the profiles sent to the United States are those of those who had a great relevance in the past, but that they do not necessarily keep it today.
And there is one of the disturbing edges, because the greatest claim has to do with the immediate, with the production and smuggling of the fentanyl and there you still have to do a strenuous job.
A special treatment is the one that will deserve Caro Quintero, searched for decades by the DEA, because they are responsible for the murder of Enrique El Kiki Camarena, a matter for which he was sentenced in Mexico and for which a long stay in prison passed, until, for a legal technicalism, due to the jurisdiction in which he was judged, he reached the freedom and founded the Cartel of Caborca, which he ordered to be held again.
It is also feasible that, in the respective trial, collusion versions of senior officials are resumed, of several six years ago, not only with the death of the DEA agent, but with the formation of illegal markets and their protection networks.
Something is certain, we are entering a new phase of the history of drug trafficking, its way of fighting and the presence, revitalized, of US security agencies throughout that framework.
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