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, January 18, 2007

Mexico captures Diaz Parada drug cartel leader

Reuters

January 17, 2007

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has captured the leader of one of its seven major drug cartels, the "Diaz Parada" gang, five weeks into an army crackdown on narco gangs, the attorney general's office said on Wednesday.

Mexican soldiers and federal police arrested Pedro Diaz Parada, whose cartel operates across southern Mexico, on Tuesday in the southern city of Oaxaca, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office said.

The cartel, based in impoverished Oaxaca state, dominates narcotics trafficking in the south and is thought to deal with bigger smuggling gangs based in Mexico's violent northern border region.

Diaz Parada marks a major catch for Mexico's new President Felipe Calderon. He escaped in 1985 from a Oaxaca prison just days into serving a 33-year drug trafficking sentence.

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