Mexico releases 29 high-level organized crime operatives into US custody

Prisoners, including Rafael Caro Quintero, extradited as Mexico faces pressure to show it's tackling fentanyl trafficking

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Mexico has extradited 29 high-level organised crime operatives to the US, as it faces intense pressure from the Trump administration to show that it is tackling fentanyl trafficking.

Among the prisoners sent to the US was Rafael Caro Quintero, the drug lord who was convicted of the murder of an undercover US Drug Enforcement Administration agent in 1985.