A Cynical Trade With Colombia
The U.S. offers up an innocent man in the hope drug kingpins will be turned over.
The Justice and State Departments’ zealous attempts since 2016 to extradite former Colombian agriculture minister Andrés Felipe Arias—despite overwhelming evidence that he committed no crime—seem mysterious. Add that the U.S. has no extradition treaty with the South American cocaine producer, which has a history of refusing to send drug kingpins north to face justice, and the riddle becomes an enigma.
Even the left-leaning United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled last week that the 45-year old center-right Colombian politician...