Mexico sends 29 prisoners to us to raise charges, including the leader of the drug cartel leader

Mexico sent the drug lord Rafael Caro QuinteroThe 1985 searched for the notorious murder of a USdea agent to the United States with 28 other prisoners requested by the US government on Thursday evening in the United States.

“The defendants, which were recorded in US -rights today, include guides and managers of drug cartels, which were recently referred to as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists,” said the Ministry of Justice in a statement. It is said that they are exposed to charges such as blackmail, drug trafficking, murder, illegal use of firearms, money laundering and other crimes.

The Mexican government said in a statement: “They were sought, among other things, because of their connections to criminal organizations for drug trafficking.” Mexico said that the broadcasts were carried out “under institutional protocols with due respect for their fundamental rights”.

Also on the list there were two leaders of the Los Zetas cartel, Mexican Miguel Treviño Morales And his brother Omar Treviño Moralesknown as Z-40 and Z-42.

The removal of the drug men from Mexico fell together with a visit to Washington by the Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente and other top economic and military officers. The meeting was the youngest during ongoing negotiations with the USA about the trade and Security relationshipsthat have been radically shifted since the office of President Trump.

“As President Trump has made it clear, cartels are terrorist groups, and this Ministry of Justice is devoted to the destruction of cartels and transnational gangs,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi in a statement.

The incumbent DEA -deputy administrator Derek S. Maltz described Caro Quintero as a “cartel king, which unleashed violence, destruction and death in the United States and Mexico”, and described his transmission for the men and women of DEA “because Caro Quintero's role in brutal kidnapping and killing the Drug Enforcement Administration Antrifcy Fachdde Anterisice “Camara” Camara “Camaraen 1985” Camaraen 1985.

Caro Quintero ran after 28 years in prison in 2013 when a court opened his 40-year prison sentence for murder at Camarena. The brutal attack marked a low point in relationships between the USA and Mexico.

Caro Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, has since returned to drug trafficking and had triggered bloody lawn battles in the border state of Nord -Mexico by Sonora until it was arrested by Mexican armed forces in 2022.

In January, a non -profit group, which the Camarena family represented, sent a letter to the White House in which the Trump administration was asked to renew the long -standing US inquiries about Mexico in order to deliver Caro Quintero, as from a copy of the letter that was made available to the associated press with the family of the family.

“His return to the United States would give the family the urgently needed closure and serve the best interests of justice,” says the letter.

Shortly after its arrest in 2022, the United States was looking for the delivery of Caro Quintero. However, for unknown reasons, the request remained in the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a Sheinbaum's predecessor and political mentor, Andrés Manuel Lopez Lopez Lopez Obrador, the Mexican cooperation with DEA ​​-Official, against Mexican and military dispute, in Mexican political and military political one.

“If he is sent to the USA outside of a formal delivery and that Mexico has not brought any restrictions, he can be pursued for everything that the United States wants,” said Bonnie Klapper, a former federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, who is familiar with the case.

The distance of the Treviño Morales brothers also marks the end of a long process that began after the capture of Miguel Treviño Morales and two years from his brother Omar. The process has forwarded so many years that the then general attorney Alejandro Gertz Manero described the delays as “really shameful”.

The Treviño Morales family, who accused American authorities of having exceeded the violent northeast out of prison, have pending indictment in the United States for participating in a criminal organization, drug trafficking, fire armed offs and money laundering.

The 29 prisoners, who had been recorded in various prisons across Mexico, were brought to several cities in the United States on Thursday, including Chicago; Houston; McKinney, Texas; New York City; Phoenix; San Antonio; Washington, DC and White Plains, New York, said officials.

The Mexican government published the rooms of the 29 men, with parts of their faces hidden behind black bars.

The transfer comes, since the Mexican top officials in Washington, DC, are and try to get the threat from the Trump government 25% tariffs for all Mexican imports impose Next week.

On Thursday, Mr. Trump said that he intends to drive the sanctions and write about the social truth that “drugs still flow to our country from Mexico and Canada at very high and unacceptable levels”.

In return for the delay of tariffs, Trump insisted that Mexico lies against the US Mexico against the US Mexico Border, cartels and fentanyl productionDespite considerable migration and overdoses last year. The distances can indicate that negotiations with the tariff period are received.