New rules of the game

With the change in administration in the United States there has been a lot of activity regarding extraditions to the United States. Mexico has sent a batch of 29 high-level narcotic traffickers to the US in the last week. Additionally, Attorney General Bondi put out a memorandum on February 5, 2025, which stated two principles. First, the US would focus on high-level traffickers instead of the low-level workers which has been the pattern for the last forty years. Second, the memo indicated that foreign persons would be sent back to their own country to serve their sentence. Although there is a treaty called the Council of Europe Treaty that allows for the early return to home countries of foreign citizens from the US. However, several countries are not part of this treaty, including Colombia. The memo itself does not outline how the principle is going to become practice, but the memo is attached as is this link to countries who participate in the Council of Europe treaty.

Countries who participate in the Council of Europe treaty

Memorandum by the Attorney General of the United States