Mexico nabs a top leader of Juarez drugs cartel

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: AFP

Mexican authorities have arrested Vicente Carrillo Leyva, a leader of the Juarez drugs cartel and son of kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes, prosecutors said on Thursday.


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[tomm2thumbs]

1. That's good news for the folks in El Paso, Texas

Juarez is a hop, skip and a jump away - in a bad way

[nyy1998]

2. Yeah, as an El Paso native

This is good news, but it's not enough, there's still thousands of people dying and I know plenty of people in El Paso are still nervous about what's going on across the river.

[IDFbunny]

3. Sun Tzu said "never do an enemy a small harm"

Let's watch the blow back to Mexican authorities.

[UTUSN]

4. Ah, health consciousness has penetrated even the supposed cartel leaders!1

"Carrillo Leyva, who used a false name and passed himself off as a businessman, "was spotted in Mexico City exercising in a park near his home," said police commissioner Rodrigo Esparza."

[steven johnson]

5. Mexico reports arrest of major drug suspect

Source: Associated Press

An heir to one of Mexico's most notorious narcotics empires was grabbed by police as he exercised in a city park, officials announced Thursday, shortly before U.S. and Mexican Cabinet officials met to coordinate attacks on escalating drug violence.

Carrillo Leyva allegedly inherited a top position in the Juarez cartel from his father Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who was nicknamed "the Lord of the Skies" for sending jetliners full of cocaine to the United States.

The father was considered Mexico's No. 1 drug trafficker when he died in 1997 during plastic surgery to change his appearance. The U.S. Embassy said Thursday that the embattled remnant of his cartel is still "one of Mexico's most ruthless organized criminal gangs, which controls one of the primary transportation routes for illegal drug shipments into the United States."

Prosecutors say Carrillo Leyva, 32, was second only to his uncle Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in the gang, whose battles with upstart cartels have fed a bloodbath that saw 1,600 people killed in its home base of Ciudad Juarez last year.


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