News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Mexico arrests major cocaine kingpin from Juarez

AZ Central
Associated Press

Nov. 21, 2005 08:30 AM

MEXICO CITY - Mexican federal agents have arrested a top drug kingpin who seized control of the powerful Juarez cartel and is accused of smuggling five tons of cocaine a month into the United States, Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said Monday.

Ricardo Garcia Urquiza, known as "the Doctor" was detained in Mexico City along with 11 other people, Cabeza de Vaca said.

He said that Garcia was responsible for bringing up to 20 percent of the drugs into the United States.

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