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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.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Mexican drug kingpin pleads innocent to US charges

Reuters

February 09, 2007

By Jeff Franks

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Mexican drug kingpin extradited to Texas last month pleaded innocent on Friday to charges he led a cartel that shipped cocaine and marijuana into the United States.

Osiel Cardenas, wearing a green jail uniform and his hands shackled to a chain around his waist, said in Spanish "No culpable," or not guilty, when asked by U.S. Magistrate Stephen Smith through a translator how he pleaded to the federal charges.

The stocky, balding Cardenas stood before Smith in a courtroom ringed by heavily armed U.S. marshals.

He is said to be the head of the powerful Gulf cartel based in northeastern Mexico and was extradited to the United States on January 19 for trial on multiple charges of drug trafficking and assaulting and threatening U.S. drug agents.

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