Petro extradites drug lord hours before White House visit

Under pressure from Washington, the leftist leader resumed the extraditions of criminal leaders to the United States, which had been suspended for months amid stalled peace negotiations with armed groups in his country. Petro "gave a very clear order over the weekend that the criminal alias Pipe Tulua be extradited from Colombia to the United States as quickly as possible," Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday. Sanchez will be accompanying Petro to Washington, for what will be the president's first face-to-face meeting with Trump.