LatinNews Daily - 20 June 2016

Mexico: On 15 June Mexico’s interior ministry (Segob) confirmed that US authorities had delivered convicted drug trafficker Héctor ‘El Güero’ Palma Salazar to officials from the federal attorney general’s office (PGR) at the Puente Nuevo border crossing in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas state. Palma is a Mexican national considered to be one of the founding members of the Sinaloa/Pacífico drug trafficking organisation (DTO) along with Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera. After being extradited to the US from Mexico, Palma was given a 16-year prison sentence for drug trafficking in the US in 2008 but was released on 10 June on good conduct. Palma’s repatriation was confirmed by the US embassy in Mexico which said in a statement that he was released after serving 85% of his sentence with good conduct (the US counted the five years that Palma spent in prison in Mexico awaiting extradition) and that he was delivered back to the Mexican authorities in a sign of good faith.

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