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It is not a commitment to the United States. It is a commitment to ourselves,
said Mexican attorney general Alejandro Gertz Manero
For 14,631 days, we held on to hope – hope that this moment would come. Hope that we would live to see accountability. And now, that hope has finally turned into reality,
the family said in a statement thanking Trump and everyone who has worked on the case over the yearsHe and his partners pioneered the Mexican drug trafficking industry,
Komatireddy said in urging Levy to order Caro Quintero detained
Buenas tardes, senor, good afternoon,
Levy said in both English and Spanish after the case was calledWe have waited 40 years for this day,
Frank Tarantino, the special agent in charge of the DEA's New York division, told reporters outside the federal courthouse in BrooklynThis is historical, this has really never happened in the history of Mexico,
Mike Vigil, former DEA chief of international operations, told the Associated Press
The mass extradition of 29 narcos from Mexico to U.S., trampling their appeals and making them eligible for death is a big fucking deal and a huge smack to cartels.”
In another post to X, Grillo wroteOthers are much younger leaders engaged in moving large quantities of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. more recently,
the news agency addedCould it be a turning point in Mexico’s cartel wars? We live in convulsive times,
he addedWe have never seen this many sent from Mexico to the U.S. in one day,
Donovan said
For those of us who have investigated Mexican cartels for many generations, this is truly an historical moment."
The DEA's former chief of operations, Ray Donovan, saidThe group of cartel members ... includes one of the most evil cartel bosses in the world,
the White House said in a statement
The FBI and our partners will scour the ends of the earth to bring terrorists and cartel members to justice. The era of harming Americans and walking free is over."
FBI Director Kash Patel, in a statement
The custody, transfer and formal delivery of these persons is carried out under institutional protocols with due respect for their fundamental rights, in accordance with our Constitution and the National Security Law and at the request of the Department of Justice of the United States. This action is part of the work of coordination, cooperation and bilateral reciprocity, within the framework of respect for the sovereignty of both nations."
Mexico's Attorney General and Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, in a statementIn certain portions of Mexico, they function as quasi-governmental entities.”
The text of the order stated
Drugs are still pouring into our Country from Mexico and Canada at very high and unacceptable levels,
he wrote in a Truth Social post on Thursday in which he confirmed the tariffs will be imposed next weekWhat we insist on is the defence of our sovereignty and our independence,
she said
Today's arrest is the culmination of tireless work by DEA and their Mexican partners to bring Caro Quintero to justice for his alleged crimes."
In a statement at the time of his arrest, former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said
Well your dad's Superman,
Enrique said
Within about five or six hours, there's a dozen to two dozen agents that arrived,
Enrique told CBS News in that 2017 interview