For the first time, Colombia on Thursday extradited two alleged members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) who are accused by a U.S. federal court of drug trafficking.
Extradition is one of the toughest tools Colombia and its allies use to try to combat the production and distribution of cocaine.
The men extradited on Thursday are Henry Trigos Celon and Yamit Picon Rodriguez, who uses the alias Chonta, both wanted by the Southern District of Texas, Colombian Justice Minister Wilson Ruiz said in a statement. The men were handed over to U.S. authorities at an air base in Bogota belonging to Colombia's national police. They arrived in Houston on Thursday afternoon and were scheduled to appear in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Sam Sheldon on Friday, the Justice Department said in a statement.
The ELN, former FARC members who reject a 2016 peace deal, and crime gangs formed by former right-wing paramilitaries are all involved in drug trafficking in Colombia, where a nearly six-decade conflict has killed 260,000 people.
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