terms of his extraditionwas not ripe for review.
Benitez's state habeas petitions were denied. The federal magistrate judge determined that Benitez's petition challenging his sentence had merit, but was not ripe because Benitez might not be forced to serve jail time exceeding thirty years.
The district court decided that the dispute was ripe but that Benitez failed to demonstrate that his sentence violated clearly established federal law.

II
Benitez's extradition was conditioned upon a limitation on what sentence could be entered against him as well as what sentence he could serve. When the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the U.S. Embassy of the Venezuelan Supreme Court's decision to extradite Benitez, the Ministry indicated that the extradition was "conditioned to the understanding that the aforementioned citizen will not be sentenced to deaththe possible reasons as to why these two differing cultural psychologies emerged.

A collaborative study between universities in Michigan and China, lead by Professor Talhelm, proposed an extremely interesting hypothesis as to why Northern and Southern Chinese people developed differently. Their hypothesis states that the main reason for the North and South divide can be traced back to rice and noodles. The Northern and Southern regions of China are roughly divided by what we know in the West to be the Yangtze River (长江).The area below the Yangtze River is largely a rice growing area, while the area that lies North is more suitable for the cultivation of wheat. In the Southern region of China, rice is largely grown on irrigated land. This harvesting method requires the sharing of