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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.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Accused Mexican Kingpin's Trial Delayed

The Associated Press on Topix.net

March 03, 2007

A trial for an alleged Mexican drug kingpin accused of smuggling as much as six tons of cocaine a month into the U.S. has been postponed until later this year.

Cardenas-Guillen, 39, was extradited to the United States in January and is being held in Houston. He faces 17 counts of drug importing and distribution, as well as three charges of threatening a federal agent and one count of money laundering. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

Authorities say Cardenas-Guillen was the leader of the Matamoros, Mexico-based Gulf cartel, which he ran even while in a Mexican prison for nearly the past four years.

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