U.S. Stealing Colombia's Drug Lords

On May 13, 2008, Diego Fernando Murillo, aka "Don Berna," the notorious Colombian warlord and heir to famed drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, walked off a plane in suburban New York, his hands cuffed behind him. Thirteen other high-profile leaders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a heavily armed, well-financed paramilitary group on the U.S. State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations, also arrived via Drug Enforcement Administration planes across the United States that same day to face criminal charges in U.S. courts for narcotrafficking. The mass extradition was hailed by U.S. and Colombian officials as a victory for justice and a model of hemispheric cooperation.