Colombia's Makled Decision Places Regional Priorities Over U.S. Ties

By Eliot Brockner, on , Briefing

After a long and complicated legal battle, Colombian authorities have decided to extradite Venezuelan national Walid Makled to Venezuela to face murder and drug-trafficking charges in his native country, rather than in a U.S. court in Manhattan, where he is also wanted on drug-trafficking charges.

Though the decision to send Makled to Venezuela appears to be final, the political implications of his extradition from Colombia -- where he was arrested in August 2010 -- have just begun to ripple around the region and in Washington. ...

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