(CNN) The Mexican government is extraditing major alleged drug cartel suspects to face justice in the U.S., in the wake of the embarrassing prison escape of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, U.S. officials told CNN.

Among those put on planes to the U.S. on Wednesday, the U.S. officials tell CNN: Edgar Valdez Villareal, known as "La Barbie," a dual Mexican and American citizen who rose a top position in the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, and Jean Baptiste Kingery, an American who allegedly ran a factory making grenades and IEDs to supply to the Sinaloa and other cartels. Also extradited were Luis Umberto Hernandez Celis, Jorge Costilla-Sanchez, Carlos Montemayor, Alberto Nunez-Payan, Ricardo Valles de la Rosa, Aureliano Montoya-Pena and Julio Cesar Valenzuela-Elizalde.

The extraditions are among 13 suspects long sought by the U.S, including one allegedly involved in the murder of an ICE agent in Mexico in 2011, and suspects in the 2010 killings of a U.S. consulate employee and her husband in Juarez, Mexico. In return, the U.S. plans to turn over suspects sought by Mexico, the officials said.

In recent years, the Mexican government has balked at the U.S. extradition requests for top cartel figures, including one for El Chapo, who topped the U.S. most-wanted list of cartel figures.

But a new Mexican attorney general, Arely Gómez González, has promised to change that. She met with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in June in Washington, and the two countries vowed "a new push for collaboration between the two nations in the context of reciprocity and respect," according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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