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MEXICAN GOVERNMENT ASKS CANADA TO EXTRADITE MINE-UNION LEADER NAPOLEON GOMEZ URRUTIA.

SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico, August, 2006

The Mexican government has requested the extradition of Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, the embattled leader of Mexico's largest mine union (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros, Metalurgicos y Similares de la Republica Mexicana (SNTMMSRM). Gomez Urrutia, who is accused of misappropriating about US$55 million in union funds, fled to Vancouver, Canada.

The Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) made the extradition request to the Canadian government based on an arrest order presented by Federal District Judge Santa Adelina Flores Montoya in late July. Flores' arrest order followed a similar action by Judge Jesus Ubando Lopez of Mexico City in mid-July.

"Mine workers have presented more than 7,000 labor and legal complaints against [Gomez Urrutia]...

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