# Mexico transfers 29 imprisoned cartel figures to the United States Date: 2025 ## The fact On 27 February 2025, as officials negotiated in Washington against a tariff deadline, Mexico transferred 29 imprisoned cartel figures to the United States, including Rafael Caro Quintero. Sheinbaum called it a sovereign decision. ## Context 3 February Guard-for-tariff pause sat as parent. Neighbouring 12 August 2025 second transfer is a child not stored here. She did not sit as a US judge. 3 February 2025 pause is the parent. Mencho 2026 is a later security child. The President of Mexico heads the federal executive, promulgates laws Congress sends, and commands the armed forces. She does not write an INE tally, a SCJN judgment, a US tariff schedule, or a cartel killing by herself. Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s earlier statutes are not her later decrees unless she re-enacted them. A disappearance print is not a unique due-process coefficient. ## Evidence and sources Presidency of Mexico carries the official instrument or communique. Brookings Institution records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) and justice: a completed high-value transfer under tariff weather, remaining sovereignty limits named. ## What is established and what is not Established: 27 February 2025 transfer of 29 named prisoners, independently reported. Not established: a unique later US or Mexican homicide coefficient from that Thursday, or that every transferee was thereby convicted in the US that day. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. US marshals received. Mexican courts had held the prisoners.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Mexico transfers 29 imprisoned cartel figures to the United States, not a later speech about Mexico transfers 29 imprisoned cartel figures to the United States. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Mexico transfers 29 imprisoned cartel figures to the United States on 2025-02-27 is not a licence to treat every later Presidency of Mexico communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Mexico transfers 29 imprisoned cartel figures to the United States into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She authorised a sovereign transfer. US marshals received. Mexican courts had held the prisoners. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Claudia Sheinbaum: https://factrail.ai/people/claudia-sheinbaum ## Drivers - Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access - Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion ## Sources - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/mexican-president-claudia-sheinbaum-is-cleaning-house-and-consolidating-power/ - https://www.gob.mx/presidencia ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mx-extradite-2025