News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, May 11, 2007

U.S. wants imprisoned Mexican drug baron extradited

REUTERS

2:48 p.m. May 10, 2007

MEXICO CITY – The United States has requested the extradition of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Benjamin Arellano Felix so he can be tried in California on trafficking charges, his lawyer said Thursday.

One of the last captured Mexican drug barons yet to be tried in the United States, he ran the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel with his brother Ramon starting in the late 1980s.

Last month, a Mexican judge sentenced Arellano Felix to five years in prison for arms possession. He faces more time for outstanding charges such as organized crime activities and drug smuggling.

Washington, which had a $2 million bounty on Arellano Felix's head in the United States until his capture, has sought his extradition for more than a decade.

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