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Puerto Vallarta News NetworkNews Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2008 

Mexico Extradites Drug Suspect to U.S.
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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 to the United States. The attorney general's office announced the extradition in a news release Thursday.

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



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