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Mexico extradites to the US the 'Lord of the Tunnels'

Sunday, January 19, 2020 20:12

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Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat Reforma

José Sanchez Villalobos also known as “El topo” or “El Quirino” will be prosecuted by a Federal Court of California

https://www.thefix.com/content/us-mexico-extradition-teamwork91486

The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) extradited to the United States a boss of the Sinaloa Cartel, José Sánchez Villalobos, alias “The Lord of the Tunnels”.

Also known as “El Topo” or “El Quirino”, will be prosecuted in a Federal Court of California.

Sánchez Villalobos is designated as the financial operator of the Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Cartel, and responsible for the narcotunnels of that organization in Tijuana, Baja California.

He was arrested on January 15, 2012 in Zapopan, Jalisco, by Army elements based on a provisional arrest warrant for extradition purposes.

The alleged drug dealer was captured following the assurance of $ 15 million in Tijuana on November 18, 2011.

Once the stages of the extradition procedure were exhausted, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) issued the corresponding agreement through which the Government of Mexico granted the extradition of the defendant.

The agreement was firm and enforceable when the legal remedies to which Sánchez Villalobos was entitled were exhausted.

The delivery of the “Lord of the Tunnels” to the US agents designated for transfer to the United States was made at the Toluca International Airport, State of Mexico.

I found this article from April of 2013 published on “The Fix”:

US officials are hoping that the spirit of co-operation between the US and Mexico will continue as they wait to see if Sinaloa Cartel “Chief Financial Officer” José Sánchez-Villalobos will be extradited to the US. Villalobos would face a number of serious charges north of the border, including conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and financing a pair of sophisticated drug-smuggling tunnels on the Southwest border.

US officials were buoyed in March when Mexico extradited César Alfredo Meza-García to face charges that he masterminded a Tijuana-based drug smuggling cell. The extradition was the first under the auspices of newly elected Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and US officials quickly took this a sign that Mexico would continue its record of extraditing scores of cartel operatives to face charges in the US. However the Villalobos case may prove to be more problematic.

A formal request was made to send Villalobos to San Diego to face prosecution nearly a year ago, and the US is still awaiting an answer. Having grown accustomed to the support of the Calderón administration, these kinds of delays point to an uncertain future for US-Mexico relations in the matter. Sherri Walker Hobson, the US Attorney prosecuting Villalobos’ case in Sand Diego, says: “We’re in a wait-and-see period.”

President Nieto has vowed to carry on in the steps of his predecessors, but his Institutional Revolutionary Party has long prided itself as “a defender of Mexican sovereignty…against US influence,” according to David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of California, San Diego. Before Mexico made its transition from one-party rule in 2000, extraditions were often seen as politically taboo as the country was determined to fight drug traffickers free from US influence. It wasn’t until the election of Vincente Fox that extraditions became the norm and this co-operation was rewarded with generous aid packages to fight the cartels. The number of extraditions to the US more than doubled under President Calderón’s tenure, during which time at least 63,000 people were killed as he escalated the war against the cartels.

Seven years later…….

Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2020/01/mexico-extradites-to-us-lord-of-tunnels.html

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