Mexico's Fox predicts backlash in drug war

[Milton Bradley]

Quote by: =Osborn F Enready Did your country have to change its Constitution to extradite its people?

Quote by: rmnunez Extradition arrangements are insitutionally established between governments, what is required is that the suspect be accountable before the law in the demanding jurisdiction and that the granting jurisdiction recognize the competence of the demanding authority in the particulars. If this is the case an extradition will result regardless of the suspect's citizenship. Recently the notion of a fundamental human right to life has been interpreted as precluding application of capital punishment and some governments (including Mexico) have carved out an exception to extradition when the suspect is charged by the demanding jurisdcition with an offense punishable by death.

Mr. Nunez, while some people may see that as an answer to the question posed, I don't think all of us will.


Want to take another stab at that one?


Perhaps you are unaware that Colombia had to change/violate their constitution to cooperate with gringan ( your laughter here _____ ) law enforcement, and in the end both the our constitution, and Colombias had to be trampled to bring Pablo, or anybody engaging in such behavior in Colomba to "justice".


To me, the only justice that ever came out of that situation was all the authoritarians that ate lead trying to stop free enterprise. I hope to see a little of that good old fashioned justice here some day as well.


Sadly, with all I have seen, and know about my situation in this country, I am coming to terms with the fact that I may have to shoot some Nazis myself. Not a big supporter of the Fourth Reich no matter what uniform they choose to wear.


How you, or anybody ever comes to support such draconian, authoritarian policies remains a mystery to me.

[rmnunez]

The only preclusion to extradition under Mexican constitutional law is the recent interpretation of capital punishment as in breach of a universal human right to life. The Mexican constitution does not forbid extraditions, was not modified so Mexico could extradite.

[Osborn F Enready]

So you are saying that it has been legal to extradite to the U.S. since the adoption of the Mexican Constitution?

How has the Drug War affected your laws, rights, or Constitution?

[rmnunez]

Yes, Mexican authorities regularly lawfully extradite Mexican and other citizens sought by US legal authorities, most often on drug-related charges.

It is hard to determine what impact the war on drugs may have had on Mexican law, it has had no impact on the Mexican constitution.

The relationship between Mexico and the US is best described as "institutional" and this basically means that governental agencies on either side of the border have developed a standardized way of interacting that has stood the test of time and survived all sorts of political clashes. Among the most successful governmental entities on either side of the border in institutionalizing relations are departments for defence, law-enforcement, immigration, customs, agriculture and the economy.

Extradition is a law-enforcement concern, hence well institutionalized. Mexico follows the standardized procedure applied across the civilized world; an apolitical determination is made to grant or deny based on strict compliance with protocolarly conditions which include; issuance of a lawful warrant in the originating jurisdiction which is recognized by the executive of that state, recognition of the authority in the demanding jurisdiction by the demanded one, identification of the wanted subject as present in Mexico when the extradition demand is made, presence of the named individual in Mexico when the warrant is executed, proper communication of the extradition request to Mexican law-enforcement, and that the extradited not face capital punishment as a consequence of his extradition.