Thread: Mexico extradites Colombian drug dealer (# 153)

Mexico extradites alleged Colombian drug dealer

ASSOCIATED PRESS

6:53 a.m. October 16, 2008

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say they have extradited a Colombian cartel operative wanted for smuggling thousands of pounds of cocaine into the United States.

The federal Attorney General's Office says Ever Villafane Martinez represented Colombia's Norte del Valle drug cartel in dealings with Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. He escaped from a Colombian prison in 2001.

Villafane is the 153rd suspect extradited from Mexico to the United States. The Attorney General's Office announced the extradition in a news release Thursday.

Since taking office in 2006, President Felipe Calderón has sent a record number of top drug lords to the United States, including the alleged Gulf cartel leader, Osiel Cardenas.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexi ... dited.html

Why are we so lucky? Do we get to support these guys for the rest of their lives. It probably would be cheaper to pay Mexico to keep these guys in their prisons. My late father, a mathematician, figured out that it would be cheaper if we paid Russia (after the breakup of the Soviet Union) to house our criminals in the old gulags, than what we have to spend each year in taxpayer dollars, updating the law libraries, providing medical care, etc.