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The Mexican government has sent an additional 9,000 soldiers and police to the country's northern states to confront drug smugglers threatening to rise up against the extradition of their gang bosses.
Mexican Defense Secretary Guillermo Galvan said the government buildup, part of "Operation Sierra Madre," came in response to the Jan. 19 extradition to the United States of 15 suspected smugglers, including 10 reputed drug cartel bosses.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon had dispatched more than 16,000 Mexican army, navy and federal police into the states of Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa shortly after he took office Dec. 1.
They have since burned more than 2,500 acres of marijuana fields and 2,000 acres of opium fields and have confiscated nearly 3 tons of cocaine and 20 tons of harvested marijuana in the country's so-called "golden triangle" of drug traffickers.
Mr. Galvan said soldiers and police are prepared to confront any uprising and suggested that he was planning more extraditions as part of a crackdown by the Calderon administration on drug kingpins in the three states.
In the past six months, Mexico has extradited more than 60 fugitives to the United States, including suspects wanted on murder, rape and drug trafficking charges. The extraditions prompted Antonio O. Garza Jr., the U.S. ambassador in Mexico, to say the two countries "are working together to guarantee that neither country will ever be a refuge for those who seek to escape justice."

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