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Friday, July 19, 2019
Volume:
35
Issue:
7
Abstract:
On July 12, 2019, the United States extradited to Colombia Andres Felipe Arias Leiva, the Colombia Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2005 to 2009. He is set to serve a sentence of 209 months in prison after a 2014 conviction by the Supreme Court of Colombia for two offenses committed while in public office. In 2014, Arias fled to the U.S. after his conviction. Once in Florida, he hired an immigration attorney and applied for asylum. He claimed that the corruption charges were politically motivated and that he had not received a fair trial.