David Noriega is an NBC News correspondent based in Los Angeles.
Two Colombian nationals are facing extradition to the U.S. for their alleged role in a human smuggling operation that resulted in the disappearance at sea of dozens of migrants. The two men are accused to have been part of a smuggling operation known as La Agencia, or The Agency, which ferried migrants from San Andrés Island, a tourist destination off Colombia’s Caribbean coast, to Nicaragua, where they then continued on to the United States.
The arrests of Rivera and Linero are the first to result from this expansion. The route offered and managed by La Agencia looks to bypass the dangerous trek through the Darien jungle, offering instead a safe journey to Central America by boat. Adam Isacson, who leads the Washington Office on Latin America’s defense oversight program, said the arrests could deliver a significant blow to networks using this specific route.
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