Awesome news, and strike two booger eaters off the bounty list. Good on the guys down south for taking them down. –Matt
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Drug war strikes blow to Mexican economy in crisis
Apr 2, 2009
02 Apr 2009MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican police have captured a leading drug baron from the border city of Ciudad Juarez, the country’s most violent town in a turf war that killed 6,300 people last year.
Vicente Carrillo Leyva, a leader of the Juarez cartel, was seized while exercising in a park in an upscale residential district of Mexico City, police said on Thursday.
The Juarez cartel is locked in a bitter war with traffickers from the state of Sinaloa for control of smuggling routes into Texas. The fighting forced the government to send 5,000 extra troops into Ciudad Juarez last month.
Carrillo Leyva is the son of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a late drug lord who flew jetliners full of cocaine into Mexico in the 1990s and was known as ‘Lord of the Skies’.