Mexico Expels 26 More Narco Prisoners To US Amid Trade Talks and Military Threat
CrashOut had reported in April that another mega-expulsion was in the works including Jalisco financial brain "El Cuini"
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UPDATED at 19:10 CDMX time with full list of narcos transferred.
The Mexican government followed the same playbook as in February. Soldiers and federal agents came for the prisoners in their cells and swiftly took them onto military aircraft. The media only got a whiff that a big operation was in the works before the accused cartel figures were safely in U.S. airspace.
The message was first that a mass extradition had taken place before it was clarified that it was mostly a transfer or expulsion of prisoners using the contested legal justification of Mexico’s National Security Law. And the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum again delivered to President Donald J. Trump amid tense trade talks and the specter of U.S. military strikes.
The names of the prisoners were released late on Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice and they included some genuinely major cartel players as well as some…
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