“Char” Borderland Beat
The United States government has removed Alexander Cifuentes Villa, a friend and associate of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán, from its blacklist.
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) removed the Colombian drug trafficker from its blacklist.
So far, his whereabouts are unknown since, after he testified against Chapo Guzmán in his trial, he may have remained as a protected witness, according to Univisión.
Alex Cifuentes Villa collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel leader from 2007 to 2013. However, at the time of his trial in 2019, he decided to cooperate with the US government after he was arrested in Sinaloa and extradited to the United States.
In that trial, he reiterated about a bribe to former President Enrique Peña Nieto. In the last month of Peña Nieto’s administration, spokesman Eduardo Sánchez denied the accusations, arguing that the drug lord was arrested and extradited.
