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Arellano Felix was head of the powerful Tijuana cartel and... Email Print Related News UPDATE 4-Mexico's Cemex posts loss but sales rise Fri, Apr 29 2011 Analysis: Drugs war ignites Mexican fury at U.S. indifference Fri, Apr 29 2011 Obama administration seeks more comments on rifle sale plan Thu, Apr 28 2011 Hunger strike Mexican clings to royal wedding hope Wed, Apr 27 2011 U.S. expands Mexico travel warning over violence Tue, Apr 26 2011 Analysis & Opinion Muni sweeps: Garden State warning Fracking leak hands Earth Day gift to green energy Related Topics World » MEXICO CITY | Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:23pm EDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico extradited once-powerful drug lord Benjamin Arellano Felix to the United States on Friday in a renewed sign of U.S.-Mexican cooperation in the drug fight. Arellano Felix was head of the powerful Tijuana cartel and operated on the Mexico-U.S. border near San Diego until his capture in Mexico in early 2002. He faces charges in the United States of smuggling tons of cocaine into California in the 1990s. Serving a sentence in Mexico on organized crime charges, he was due to be extradited in 2008, but a Mexican federal judge blocked that ruling. The injunction was overturned in April last year. Mexico's attorney general's office said in a statement that Arellano Felix was handed over to U.S. agents at an airport outside Mexico City on Friday. It was not immediately clear what sentence Arellano Felix might face if convicted in the United States, but a U.S. official thanked Mexico for the extradition. "The extradition ... reflects our close collaboration with our Mexican law enforcement partners to dismantle violent criminal organizations," said Lanny Breuer, assistant attorney general of the criminal division. Former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas, extradited to the United States by Mexico in 2007, is serving a 25-year sentence in Texas without chance of parole. The Tijuana cartel, also known as the Arellano Felix gang, is a shadow of its former self after the deaths and capture of many of its leaders over the past decade. The Sinaloa cartel run by Mexico's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, has largely taken over its turf. A nephew of the brothers, Fernando Sanchez Arellano, has emerged as the Tijuana cartel's leader, but his power is limited to collaborating with the Sinaloans, U.S. and Mexican drug trade experts say. Friday's extradition is not expected to influence the drug war raging in Mexico, in which 37,000 people have died since late 2006, but reflects Mexican and U.S. efforts to keep working together. Tensions over the conflict boiled over last month when U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual said he would step down after weeks of pressure from the Mexican government. President Felipe Calderon, under pressure in Mexico over his security strategy, has become embroiled in a war of words with Washington over U.S. demand for narcotics. 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