Mexico releases 29 high-level organized crime operatives into US custody

<p>Prisoners, including Rafael Caro Quintero, extradited as Mexico faces pressure to show it’s tackling fentanyl trafficking</p><ul><li>Don’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. <a href="https://app.adjust.com/1ja835wd">Download our free app to get trusted reporting</a></li></ul><p>Mexico has extradited 29 high-level organised crime operatives to the US, as it faces intense pressure from the Trump administration to show that it is tackling fentanyl trafficking.</p><p>Among the prisoners sent to the US was Rafael Caro Quintero, the drug lord who was convicted of the murder of an undercover US Drug Enforcement Administration agent in 1985.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/27/mexico-cartels-fentanyl-extraditions-trump">Continue reading...</a>