Argentina extradites Colombian narco to the US Londoño, alias "Mi Sangre"

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Colombian Henry Jesus López Londoño, aka "Mi Sangre", was extradited in a secret operation Thursday to the United States, where he faces charges for drug trafficking, a police source reported.

Londoño, arrested in Buenos Aires in 2012, was taken by helicopter to the international airport from the nearby Ezeiza jail, 30 km south of the Argentine capital, where he boarded a private plane bound for the United States at 07:22 local time (10H22 GMT).

In the operation, which had strong security measures, members of the Interpol and marshals, members of the institution responsible for executing the orders of US federal courts, took charge of taking him to the plane.

The Supreme Court of Justice of Argentina confirmed on September 13 its extradition order to the United States.

This led to a request by the Federal Court of First Instance for the Southern District of Florida of the United States (southeast) for the crime of "illicit association to distribute cocaine, knowing that it would be imported illegally to that country."

The 45-year-old detainee argued at the trial - which ended in May this year - that his life was in danger in the United States because he was a member of the paramilitary organization United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), which he joined in 1996 to To fight the leftist guerrillas.

Londoño was captured in October 2012 in a neighborhood of exclusive residences in Pilar, a city located 50 km north of Buenos Aires. There he lived with his wife and three young children.

"The arming of my case in the United States is not a legal persecution but a political persecution. The DEA (anti-drug agency) and the Colombian police are related in my request for extradition, "he had pointed out.

A Florida court accuses him of being the leader of the band "Los Urabeños," now known as the "Clan Úsuga", one of the main criminal gangs in Colombia.

US justice claims the group "trafficked huge amounts of cocaine" from Colombia to Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico and finally to the United States by sea