By IANS,
Bogota : Colombia has extradited 17 drug traffickers to the US, Spain and Italy to face prosecutions for crimes in those countries.
Those extradited Thursday included 16 Colombians and one Nicaraguan, police said.
This is the first massive extradition executed by the Colombian authorities in 2012, Xinhua reported. Last year, Bogota extradited 147 people to the US.