Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero appeared before a judge in Brooklyn on Friday afternoon, pleading not guilty to charges related to his involvement in the decades-old killing of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

Mexican authorities finally extradited one of the most wanted drug lords in the United States, signaling that the Latin American

Federal prosecutors say a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel who was indicted along with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been extradited to El Paso from Mexico.

Rafael Caro Quintero and Vicente Carillo Fuentes were “expelled” from Mexico Thursday to face justice in the U.S., including for the former’s alleged “masterminding” of the 1985

Among those extradited is Rafael Caro Quintero, who was convicted of the 1985 torture and murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. Camarena joined the DEA in 1974, the year after its founding.

Mexico on Thursday carried out the extraditions of 29 cartel figures including notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero to the United States.

CULIACÁN, Mexico—Even Jesús Malverde, the patron saint of drug traffickers ... own territory while facing intense pressure from U.S. and Mexican law enforcement. “The Sinaloa cartel is weaker, more divided, and more torn by infighting than ever ...

The move by Mexico to allow the transfer of Rafael Caro Quintero to the United States signaled a potentially new era of cooperation in the drug war.

Several cartel operatives said that for the first time in years, they genuinely feared arrest or death at the hands of the authorities.

A reputed Sinaloa drug cartel boss and associate of "El Chapo" Guzman in Juárez is sent to El Paso to face RICO charges.

Mexico has sent Quintero and 28 other cartel figures to the U.S. as the Trump Administration turns up the pressure on drug trafficking organizations.

Two cartel leaders sent from Mexico are set ... 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.