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COLOMBIA, ECUADOR PRESENT SEPARATE EXTRADITION REQUESTS FOR MEXICAN CITIZEN LUCIA MORETT.

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July was very eventful for Lucia Morett, the Mexican college student injured in the Colombian government's raid on a rebel camp inside Ecuador in April 2008. Morett, who eventually returned to Mexico, had hoped to gain one of the at-large seats in the Mexican Congress offered by the center-left Partido del Trabajo (PT). But the PT did not win sufficient votes in the July 5 election to be able to offer Morett a position in the federal legislature. Still, Morett's troubles in July go beyond the missed opportunity to serve in Congress. Colombian and Ecuadoran authorities each presented requests to the Mexican government asking that Morett be extradited to their countries. Colombia accused her of conspiring with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) against the Colombian government, while an Ecuadoran court charged her with actions that threatened the country's internal security.

Both countries charge her with ties to FARC

Morett was part of a five-member delegation from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) that was visiting the FARC camp just inside Ecuador in April 2008 when Colombian forces launched a surprise raid (see NotiSur, 2008-03-07). The attack...

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