Edgar Veytia, who was Nayarit's top law enforcement official, admitted to conspiring with a drug cartel operating in his home state to smuggle thousands of kilograms of narcotics from Mexico into the United States for distribution in the New York area
According to Colombian authorities, the man will be extradited to the U.S.
The U.S. government has requested his extradition
Central America has become the outlet of Mexican organized crime for drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking
The historic decision is seen as a step towards the decriminalization of drugs
The Sinaloa Cartel, a drug trafficking criminal group from Mexico, has threatened to slaughter indigenous communities in Colombia over territorial control
The lines of investigation involve two hypotheses: the fight between criminal groups of Israel, and the involvement of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
A complete timeline of the shooting at Artz Pedregal, an exclusive shopping center in Mexico City
35,000 methamphetamine labs were dismantled in 31 countries between 2013 and 2017 at the global scale
The main defense argument, as put forth by Guzmán lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman, has been that the real leader of the Sinaloa Cartel is Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada