A former senior Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official has called on Mexico to step up the pace of cartel extraditions, urging the country to deliver high-ranking traffickers to the United States "on a monthly basis" to further disrupt the operations of transnational criminal organizations.
Christopher J. Urben, a 24-year DEA veteran and former Assistant Special Agent in Charge in Washington, D.C., testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this month, stating that Mexico's recent extradition of 29 cartel members, which included notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, should not be a one-time event.
