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Ambassador Palmieri pledged the total cooperation of the US government to bring any American perpetrators to justice, including extradition.

Colombian national Jeffersson Arango Castellanos was extradited to the U.S. to face charges of allegedly drugging and assaulting two U.S. soldiers in March 2020.

Gonzalez decided not to fight extradition to the US, in part because she believes US prison conditions would be better than her current Colombian lockup.

The two discussed antinarcotics, Venezuelan & Cuban relations, the Peace Process, immigration, and human rights.

Colombian President Iván Duque lauded the extradition of Saab, calling it a “triumph in the fight against drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption led by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.”

The charges against Perdomo stem from 2004, when he convinced a woman in the US to collaborate with him on financing for a condominium. The two took out a loan for $950,000 but Perdomo absconded with the money, leaving the woman on the hook for the amount and victimized.

According to reports in El Tiempo, the former mayor of Milán, Caquetá is being extradited to the US to face charges for narcotics trafficking. Jhon Eduarth Monje Alvarado has been indicted by a Texas court of belonging to an organized trafficking ring that has moved close to 100...