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Bogota: The drug kingpin, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (in the picture), wearing handcuffs and a bullet-proof vest, was put aboard a U.S. Government plane and flown to the United States for trial, becoming the most powerful Colombian trafficker to ever be extradited to America. A phalanx of helmeted policemen armed with assault rifles escorted the leader of the once-feared Cali drug cartel to the plane on Friday at a military airfield on the edge of Bogota. It took off into the night sky minutes later. Top American and Colombian authorities hailed the extradition. Soldiers and police brandishing rifles guarded a convoy that sped the kingpin from La Picota prison to the airfield. The kingpin, whose hair has gone gray and who has turned chubby while in a Colombian prison over the past nine years, faces trial in Federal courts in Miami and New York for trafficking cocaine and laundering money.
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