Colombia said on Wednesday that it would ask the United States for the extradition of Salvatore Mancuso, a former leader of a feared paramilitary group whom President Gustavo Petro had earmarked to work in his government.
Mancuso, 58, has been serving a sentence in a US prison since 2008 for conspiracy to traffic large amounts of cocaine.
Under the agreement, there would be a maximum eight-year prison sentence, in Colombia, for bosses of rightwing paramilitary groups accused of human rights abuses in a bloody war against leftist guerrillas. On Wednesday, the office said the government would activate "the diplomatic mechanisms necessary for an extradition request for Salvatore Mancuso to Colombia."
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