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veggie

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Mexico extradites once-powerful drug lord to U.S.
#14386501 - 05/02/11 01:32 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Mexico extradites once-powerful drug lord to U.S. April 30, 2011 - wgntv.com
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico extradited once-powerful drug lord Benjamin Arellano Felix to the United States on Friday in a renewed sign of U.S.-Mexican cooperation in the drug fight.
Arellano Felix was head of the powerful Tijuana cartel and operated on the Mexico-U.S. border near San Diego until his capture in Mexico in early 2002.
He faces charges in the United States of smuggling tons of cocaine into California in the 1990s.
Serving a sentence in Mexico on organized crime charges, he was due to be extradited in 2008, but a Mexican federal judge blocked that ruling. The injunction was overturned in April last year.
Mexico's attorney general's office said in a statement that Arellano Felix was handed over to U.S. agents at an airport outside Mexico City on Friday.
It was not immediately clear what sentence Arellano Felix might face if convicted in the United States, but a U.S. official thanked Mexico for the extradition.
"The extradition ... reflects our close collaboration with our Mexican law enforcement partners to dismantle violent criminal organizations," said Lanny Breuer, assistant attorney general of the criminal division.
Former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas, extradited to the United States by Mexico in 2007, is serving a 25-year sentence in Texas without chance of parole.
The Tijuana cartel, also known as the Arellano Felix gang, is a shadow of its former self after the deaths and capture of many of its leaders over the past decade.
The Sinaloa cartel run by Mexico's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, has largely taken over its turf.
A nephew of the brothers, Fernando Sanchez Arellano, has emerged as the Tijuana cartel's leader, but his power is limited to collaborating with the Sinaloans, U.S. and Mexican drug trade experts say.
Friday's extradition is not expected to influence the drug war raging in Mexico, in which 37,000 people have died since late 2006, but reflects Mexican and U.S. efforts to keep working together.
Tensions over the conflict boiled over last month when U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual said he would step down after weeks of pressure from the Mexican government.
President Felipe Calderon, under pressure in Mexico over his security strategy, has become embroiled in a war of words with Washington over U.S. demand for narcotics.
U.S. officials have said the Mexican government is not doing enough to clean up endemic corruption in its police and courts that helps feed the violence.
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Re: Mexico extradites once-powerful drug lord to U.S. [Re: veggie]
#14386704 - 05/02/11 02:42 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Friday's extradition is not expected to influence the drug war raging in Mexico, in which 37,000 people have died since late 2006, but reflects Mexican and U.S. efforts to keep working together.
Of course its going to do nothing. Literally fighting the war for 50 years so far has done nothing to halt it.
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U.S. officials have said the Mexican government is not doing enough to clean up endemic corruption in its police and courts that helps feed the violence.
U.S. officials need to get the plank out of their eye. Our police and court system is just as corrupted and completely, 100% fucked in the ass just like Mexico's is.
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Re: Mexico extradites once-powerful drug lord to U.S. [Re: Joolz]
#14391297 - 05/02/11 09:06 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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"The Tijuana cartel, also known as the Arellano Felix gang, is a shadow of its former self after the deaths and capture of many of its leaders over the past decade.
The Sinaloa cartel run by Mexico's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, has largely taken over its turf.
A nephew of the brothers, Fernando Sanchez Arellano, has emerged as the Tijuana cartel's leader, but his power is limited to collaborating with the Sinaloans, U.S. and Mexican drug trade experts say."
This sums up the perpetual nature of the drug war. Do these guys really think there's an end to this besides legalization? If you answered yes to that question, GO DO SOME RESEARCH!!!
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