Colombia extradites alias Pipe Tulúa in a nod to Trump
Andrés Marín Silva, alias Pipe Tuluáleader of the criminal gang La Inmaculada will be extradited this Tuesday to the United States, as announced by the Minister of Defense, Pedro Sánchez. This is the last nod towards Donald Trump ahead of the meeting at the White House, in which demonstrating the fight against crime by the Petro Government will be central.
Sánchez indicated that “Colombia is the country that extradites the most” and that Petro had given a “very clear order to extradite Pipe Tuluá as quickly as possible to the United States.” Until last December, Petro had signed the delivery of 791 people, out of a total of 1,129 requests endorsed by the Supreme Court of Justice. Of that total, 521 were extraditions to the United States.
Silva has been imprisoned since 2015 and his surrender process to US authorities has recently been accelerated. Although he had already been firm since last December, Petro announced this weekend that he ordered the Minister of Justice to proceed with the extradition because, supposedly, the criminal was trying to “buy public officials” to stay in Colombia.
