Colombia Extraditing Infamous Trafficker
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President Alvaro Uribe signed the final order Friday to extradite Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the most powerful Colombian trafficker to ever face trial in the United States.
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Mexico extradited one of the   infamous Arellano Felix drug-smuggling brothers to the United   States on Saturday in a rare hand-over of a major Mexican   trafficker.
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Top Marxist rebel Ricardo Palmera was extradited to the United States yesterday, becoming the first leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to face US drug and terrorism charges, officials said. Army commandos with assault rifles and US Drug Enforcement Administration agents escorted Palmera, wearing handcuffs and a bulletproof jacket, to a US government plane at a military airfield outside Bogota.
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Colombia's government offered to extradite a jailed paramilitary chief to the United States on Friday after kicking him out of a peace accord for organizing drug trafficking from his prison cell.
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Former Panamanian dictator to be extradited to France after completing a prison sentence in Miami.
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One of the world's most notorious drug traffickers, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, is being extradited to the US.
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DRUG kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, has been flown to the United States for trial, becoming the most powerful Colombian trafficker to be extradited to America.
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A Colombian court approved the extradition to the United States of one of the South American nation's most notorious paramilitary leaders on drug smuggling charges.
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The former boss of Colombia's Cali  cocaine cartel was in a U.S. prison cell on Saturday after an  extradition that capped a 14-year investigation into his  multibillion dollar drug business.
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Colombia is to seek the extradition of an Israeli mercenary arrested in Russia.
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Colombia's most notorious cocaine trafficker, Diego Montoya, was captured on Monday after a long manhunt in which the United States offered $5 million for information leading to his arrest, the government said.
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One of Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, in an interview broadcast Monday, claimed credit for the 1993 killing of rival drug lord Pablo Escobar, saying he supplied police with a tracking device that allowed them to hunt down the Medellin drug cartel leader.
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A man suspected of killing a U.S.  Drug Enforcement agent 10 years ago was extradited from Mexico  after a long legal battle, the agency said on Saturday.
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The political scandal that forced Colombia's foreign minister to quit and put other close allies of President Alvaro Uribe in jail is being driven in large part by a rebel-turned-senator who has defied death threats to become the opposition's most fearless provocateur.
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The former boss of the Cali drug cartel, who once controlled most of the world's cocaine trade, was sent to the United States on Friday to face trafficking and money laundering charges.
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Mexico extradited accused drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix to the United States on Saturday, making him the first major Mexican drug lord to be sent north to face trial on drug charges.
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Colombian police say they have arrested a man on a list of the drug-traffickers most wanted by the US. The US says Dagoberto Florez Rios is a member of the Norte del Valle cartel, which is estimated to smuggle