The list of Mexican drug lords extradited to the United States added a new name this Tuesday. The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported that Carlos Érick Vázquez González, arrested in Zapopan last May, will face legal proceedings across the border. González is wanted by the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on charges of money laundering for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, according to the newspaper Reforma.
The Attorney General’s Office has detailed that González has already been handed over to US authorities at Mexico City International Airport under the Extradition Treaty signed between the two countries. The detainee is described as “a fugitive of Mexican nationality wanted by the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky for the crimes of criminal association and money laundering.” According to the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), González’s role in the “network of money laundering organizations for a criminal group” consisted of receiving deposits of drug proceeds and moving the money to various accounts to conceal its origin.
The United States government had requested González’s extradition since his arrest in Mexico five months ago. His name joins the list of drug traffickers who will be tried on US soil as part of Donald Trump’s aggressive strategy against criminal organizations he has categorized as terrorists in his fight against drug trafficking.
Last August, Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration sent 26 detainees to prison on drug trafficking charges linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Los Zetas, La Familia, and the Arellano Félix. It was the second large-scale extradition of the president, who in February handed over 29 other criminals, including Rafael Caro Quintero, wanted by U.S. justice for decades.
