According to international news reports, the US Government is currently seeking to extradite former Guatemalan Vice President Roxanne Baldetti and former Interior Minister Hector Mauricio Lopez Bonilla for drug trafficking.
According to the Washington Post, both former officials were indicted in the US District Court in Washington DC for the charges of"conspiracy to distribute cocaine and knowing that it would be distributed in the United States."
The extradition request has not yet been accepted by the Guatemalan government. Baldetti is currently being tried in the Guatemalan court for several charges relating to corruption and defrauding the country of tens of millions of dollars.
She and her former president Otto Perez Molina have both been in jail since last year for involvement in a customs corruption scheme known as "La Linea".
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