Mexico extradited 29 high-profile cartel figures, including Rafael Caro Quintero, to the US, amid escalating pressure from President Trump’s administration to combat drug trafficking. This move, coinciding with Mexican officials' visit to Washington,

Trump designated drug cartels terrorist organizations and Mexico extradited 29 alleged members, one a suspect in a notorious DEA killing in 1985.

All the 29 drug cartel figures sent to the US on Thursday were brought from prisons across Mexico to board planes at an airport north of Mexico City that took them to eight US cities.

Drug cartel leader Rafael Caro Quintero, one of 29 cartel members extradited from Mexico to the U.S. on Thursday, is reportedly set to be arraigned in U.S. federal court on Friday. Rafael Caro Quintero,

Rafael Caro Quintero has spent years on the DEA's most wanted list ... and Mexico over impending tariffs set to be imposed on March 4. President Donald Trump has said these are a result of failures by the Mexican and Canadian governments to tackle the ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico extradited 29 alleged drug traffickers to the United States on Thursday, including Rafael Caro Quintero, a prized target long sought in the killing of a U.S. narcotics agent, and two leaders of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel,