US extradition process begins for Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero

Agents escort drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero in Sinaloa state, Mexico (Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy/AP)

Captured drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero has been told the process to extradite him from Mexico to the US is underway.

A judge based in Mexico City told Caro Quintero, who is wanted in the US for the torture and killing of DEA agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena in 1985, of the accusations against him via video-link on Saturday.