BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia's interior minister says the government is extraditing 14 paramilitary warlords to the United States for failing to comply with a peace pact. Interior Minister Carlos Holguin says the group is being extradited on Tuesday and includes the most senior warlord, Salvatore Mancuso. He and at least several others are wanted in the United States on drug-trafficking charges. Under the 2003 pact, the far-right Colombian militia leaders were supposed to confess their crimes and surrender ill-gotten riches in exchange for reduced jail terms. The militias are responsible for thousands of killings and the theft of millions of acres.
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