Operatives extradited as Mexico faces pressure from Trump administration to show it is tackling fentanyl trafficking

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Mexico has extradited 29 high-level organised crime operatives to the US, as it faces intense pressure from the Trump administration to show that it is tackling fentanyl trafficking.

Among the prisoners sent to the US was Rafael Caro Quintero, the drug lord who was convicted of the murder of an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent in 1985.