Four foreign nationals, including citizens of the US, Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia, who were convicted of trafficking 2.63 metric tons of cocaine in Guinea-Bissau last September, have been transferred to the US to face another trial.
The men, Ramon Manriquez Castillo, Edgar Rodriguez Ruano, Fernando Javier Escobar Tito, and Anderson Jair Gamboa Nieto, were sentenced to 17 years in prison in Guinea-Bissau and now face charges in the US, where they could receive sentences ranging from 10 years to life in federal prison if convicted.
The transfer was made under a mutual agreement between the US and Guinea-Bissau, with the US Drug Enforcement Agency requesting the move for security reasons, citing Guinea-Bissau’s lack of high-security prisons.
