Boston College International and Comparative Law Review Volume 38 | Issue 1 Article 6 4-1-2015 Mexico’s Catch-22: How the Necessary Extradition of Drug Cartel Leaders Undermines Long-Term Criminal Justice Reforms Walter Rodriguez Boston College Law School,
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[email protected]. MEXICO'S CATCH-22: HOW THE NECESSARY EXTRADITION OF DRUG CARTEL LEADERS UNDERMINES LONG- TERM CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS WALTER RODRIGUEZ* Abstract: Grisly cartel violence has plagued Mexico in recent decades, effective- ly destabilizing its government and encasing its citizenry in trepidation and fear. A joint operation between Mexican Marines and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in February 2014, however, finally penetrated the myth of invul- nerability for drug trafficking organizations with the arrest of that world’s most powerful leader, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán.