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Posted on: August 13, 2025 at 20:56:55 CT

Weakening cartel leadership and influence: By extraditing cartel leaders, both countries aim to disrupt command and control structures, creating instability within the organizations and potentially hindering their operations. Mexico also recognizes that wealthy drug bosses can continue to exert control and run their businesses from within Mexican prisons, making extradition to the US a way to limit their influence, according to Eduardo Guerrero, a Mexican security analyst, according to MSN.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mexico-transfers-26-imprisoned-cartel-members-to-u-s/ar-AA1KoRjf?cvid=BC05F85D1A10438580C5DDD23D07812E&ocid=ansmsnsports11

Mexico’s government said the inmates represented a risk to national security, allowing the government to cut through protracted extradition proceedings. Some of the prisoners taken to the U.S. in February had delayed extradition proceedings for years through legal maneuvers such as injunctions.

“They are a hot potato,” Guerrero said. “Inmates control Mexican prisons, they have a lot of money, bribe everybody, and continue to run their businesses from inside.”