Will the U.S. Extradite an Innocent Man?
The State Department sides with Colombia’s political prosecution of Andrés Arias.
The Obama administration was notorious for coddling Latin American leftists. So it came as no surprise in 2016 when the Obama State and Justice Departments sided with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s bid to extradite former agriculture minister Andrés Felipe Arias. He had fled to Florida to escape charges trumped up by his political enemies.
The center-right Mr. Arias’s only “crime” was his candidacy for president in 2009, when Mr. Santos wanted the job and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia terrorists wanted...