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Weekly Report - 20 October 2016 (WR-16-41)

MEXICO: A tale of two extraditions

On 18 October, after the US Supreme Court dismissed his remaining appeals, Mexican-Chinese citizen Zhenli Ye Gon was sent south – extradited from the US, where he has spent most of the last decade in prison, to Mexico, where he faces additional drug trafficking charges. It is possible that another big-name alleged drug trafficker, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, leader of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organisation (DTO), will soon be heading north, from a Mexican to a US prison. Their cases shed some light on the two countries’ attempt to crack down on drug-related crime.

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