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.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Cartel's 'El Tigrillo' caged at last

Authorities believe drug chief ordered many slayings
The Associated Press
Published: 08.17.2006

SAN DIEGO - Francisco Javier Arellano Felix was the muscle behind one of Mexico's oldest and most notorious drug cartels, a free spender who flaunted his wealth and ordered killings, observers said Wednesday after his capture.

"In the underworld, he was known as the enforcer. He was the violent hand, the one in charge of executions," said Victor Clark Alfaro, director of the Binational Center for Human Rights in Tijuana, Baja California, the home of the Arellano Felix cartel.

"He was no financier, he was no businessman," Alfaro said.

Arellano Felix, 36, also known as "El Tigrillo," (the little tiger) was caught Monday by the Coast Guard aboard a U.S.-registered sport fishing boat off Mexico's Baja California coast. The boat was being towed to San Diego, where he will be formally arrested.

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