BOGOTA, 10 Feb. (Reuters) - Colombia extradited to the United States Thursday to seven members of organizations accused of drug trafficking and money laundering, the first time to extradite drug criminals bands formed by former right-wing paramilitaries . The seven extradited are four members of the gang's Rastrojos, two countries and one calling itself the Revolutionary Popular Army Anti (ERPAC), who must appear before courts in New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Florida and Washington, reported the Judicial Police Director Carlos Ramiro Mena.
The official said the extradition of Jorge Alberto Rengifo López, alias 'Pan', accused of trading guns over 4,000 Chinese in exchange for cocaine for a group of drug traffickers and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). United States intensified its efforts to crack down on these groups sent Colombian cocaine cartels in Mexico, where they face off against security forces in their country.
These criminal gangs occupied the spaces left by the demobilized right-wing paramilitary squads in the midst of a controversial peace deal between the government and dismantled cartels of Medellin, Cali and Northern Valley. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami has established a special unit to fight gangs in cooperation with South American countries, since they sent tons of cocaine a month to Central America and Mexico, where much of the drug is purchased by Mexican cartels.
Drug trafficking in Colombia remains a business worth millions of dollars and which is financed leftist guerrillas in arms against the state in a conflict that claims thousands of lives. 
The official said the extradition of Jorge Alberto Rengifo López, alias 'Pan', accused of trading guns over 4,000 Chinese in exchange for cocaine for a group of drug traffickers and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). United States intensified its efforts to crack down on these groups sent Colombian cocaine cartels in Mexico, where they face off against security forces in their country.
These criminal gangs occupied the spaces left by the demobilized right-wing paramilitary squads in the midst of a controversial peace deal between the government and dismantled cartels of Medellin, Cali and Northern Valley. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami has established a special unit to fight gangs in cooperation with South American countries, since they sent tons of cocaine a month to Central America and Mexico, where much of the drug is purchased by Mexican cartels.
Drug trafficking in Colombia remains a business worth millions of dollars and which is financed leftist guerrillas in arms against the state in a conflict that claims thousands of lives.
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