Miguel Angel Caro-Quintero will be sentenced on February 4, 2010 in Denver, after admitting to trafficking thousands of tons of marijuana. He was well-known as the brother of Rafael Caro-Quintero, who killed DEA Agent Enrique Camaren in 1985 and is now serving a 40-year sentence in Mexico.
Earlier this year, Caro-Quintero was extradited from Mexico to Denver after serving eight years in a Mexican prison on weapons charges. He faces between 10 to 20 years in prison. Read more at FoxNews.com.
A ban on consecutive re-election has been overturned by the constitutional commission of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court. Many call it illegal and are opposed to it because only members of Ortega’s Sandista party were responsible for the ruling. The president of the commission as well as other opposition judges of the Liberal Party refuse to recognize the decision since they were not present for the vote.
Because Ortega was unable to convince Congress to amend the Nicaraguan constitution, opponents claim he therefore approached the courts.
