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Even Court-Approved Extraditions Have a Troubled, Bloody History in Guatemala

The first time the U.S. tried to extradite a Guatemalan military officer for drug trafficking, it took the assassination of the nation’s chief justice, in 1994, to stop it. No officers and few civilians have been extradited since.

The Untouchable Narco-State: Guatemala’s Army defies DEA

The same Guatemalan military intelligence chiefs who were responsible for “engineering” what a U.N. Truth Commission later concluded were “acts of genocide,” were later accused by U.S. officials of trafficking cocaine.