“Has successfully completed the operation for extradition purposes”To the United States from Rigoberto Mirandathe director of the Penitentiary System, Sergio Vela, told reporters.
He said that Miranda, 48, was transferred in an aircraft from the La Aurora airport in the capital, required by US justice for “positions related to people traffic“
In turn, the American embassy published in its X account that Miranda, “involved in the death of 53 migrants in Texas (2022)was extradited to face justice for smuggling of people. ”
It is accused of be the “leader” of the band “Los Orozcos”dedicated “a traffic of migrants to the United States, ”according to the Ministry of Interior.
Guatemalan authorities captured him on August 21 in the Western Department of San Marcos, border with Mexico.
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After your capture, A criminal court authorized his extradition to the United States on November 11 accusing him of Direct the organization that illegally entered that country to migrants, who died on June 27, 2022.
According to US authorities, The 53 migrants died from acute hyperthermia and dehydration When traveling in a trailer without ventilation. Of the total passengers, Only 11 survived.
When the traffickers opened the trailer after a trip of almost three hours to the Texan city of San Antonio, 48 migrants, including a pregnant woman, were dead. Sixteen were transferred to hospitals, but five of them died.
Miranda and the others detained by the facts They can face life imprisonment in the United States.