Brayan Rodríguez, an alleged member of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, is required by the US justice for drug trafficking.
The National Court of Justice (CNJ) announced on Wednesday that it granted the extradition to the United States of an alleged Mexican drug trafficker, a member of the Sinaloa cartel.
The president of the CNJ, Iván Saquicela, resolved “to grant the extradition of a Mexican citizen and order that he be handed over to the authorities of the United States,” which requested his handover, said the highest Ecuadorian Court.
The Mexican identified as Brayan Rodríguez, an alleged member of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel and required by the US justice for drug trafficking according to the Ecuadorian Police, was arrested in November in Quito.
The CNJ said on Twitter that a United States court ordered the arrest of Rodríguez last October, who was later located in the capital, for alleged dealings with drugs and money of dubious origin.
In Ecuador, which in 2021 seized the annual record of 210 tons of drugs, mainly cocaine, cartels such as Sinaloa and the also Mexican Jalisco Nueva Generación operate.
The government of President Guillermo Lasso, who took office last May, declared a war against drug trafficking, responsible for high rates of violence inside and outside prisons.
Prisoner members of gangs linked to these Mexican organizations staged bloody clashes in 2021, which left some 320 inmates dead and constituted the main prison massacres in Latin America. (I)
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