Opinion: Makled Must be Tried in the United States, Not Venezuela

Courtesy: Diego Arria


“I’m going to keep my word, we are a serious country.”

With those words Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos defended his decision to hand over Venezuelan drug baron Walid Makled García to President Hugo Chávez instead of extraditing him to the United States.

According to the White House, Makled is the third most important drug kingpin in the world, responsible for smuggling ten tons of cocaine into the USA and Europe a

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