The national government under President Gustavo Petro decided to suspend the extradition to the United States of Geovany Andrés Rojas, known as Araña, the leader of the border commandos. This is with the aim of ensuring its continuity in the government-sponsored peace dialogues.
This decision stops an authorization to extradite the said criminal to the North American authorities They demand that he answer for the crimes of drug trafficking and narco-terrorism.
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According to the resolution that stopped the handover of the pseudonym Araña, his extradition remains suspended as long as he continues to actively participate in the peace talks. The second article of the document stipulates that the delivery process will only take effect if the person involved stops contributing to the process.In accordance with Law 2272 of 2022, which defines the State’s policy of total peace, the Social Service for Peace is created and other provisions are dictated.
This decision comes despite the fact that the Criminal Appeal Chamber of the Supreme Court supported the extradition request of the District Court of the Southern District of California (USA). accuses Rojas of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and drug terrorism-related activities.
The national government’s position has attracted all sorts of criticism. One of the people who have spoken out on the matter is the nation’s former Attorney General Francisco Barbosa, who expressed his opposition to the measure on his X account.
As he explained, preventing the suspected drug trafficker from being sent to the United States to stand trial could be classified as obstruction.
“There is evidence here of possible obstruction of North American justice in the fight against drug trafficking by Gustavo Petro by suspending the extradition of drug trafficker VIP due to his government’s criminal profit strategy called “total peace,” the former official wrote on the social network.
He assured that the “Araña” case joins many others related to the release of drug traffickers from prisons. He pointed out that there is evidence of these events. “The efforts of the judiciary to catch these criminals were enormous, so that in one fell swoop they would be on the streets and protected.“, he added.
While the defendant remains in Colombia by decision of the Petro government so that he can contribute to truth and peace, Another criminal would be destined to appear before the US judiciary to answer for crimes related to drug trafficking.
This is Andrés Felipe Marín Silva, aka Pipe Tuluá, leader of the criminal organization La Inmaculada. Both the Supreme Court and the Petro government favored his extradition for the following crimes:
- Concert to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
- Agreement to traffic and distribute cocaine with the intent, knowledge, and reason to believe that the cocaine would be lawfully imported into the United States.
- Manufacturing and distributing five kilograms or more of cocaine with the intent, knowledge, and reasonable grounds to believe that the cocaine would be illegally imported into the United States.
“Pipe Tuluá” filed a Tutela lawsuit to prevent his extradition to the United States. The Civil, Agricultural and Rural Chamber of Cassation, whose president is Judge Hilda González Neira, is responsible for clarifying your application and checking whether your fundamental rights are actually being violated.
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