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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.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Arellano eligible for death penalty

Indictment says he ran cartel, ordered killings
By Onell R. Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Photo by HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune
December 20, 2006

After one brother was killed and another was jailed, Francisco Javier Arellano Félix took over the family business: a murderous cartel that moved tons of drugs worth millions of dollars into the United States, prosecutors said in a sweeping federal indictment unsealed yesterday.

Arellano also moved the cartel into a new moneymaking venture, kidnapping for ransom, prosecutors said.

The indictment was filed Friday in U.S. District Court and accuses Arellano, 37, of personally ordering abductions, murders and beheadings.

posted by missionaryman | 8:05 AM

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