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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.

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Justice Department Announces $45 Million Multi-Ton Drug Bust Targeting Mexican Organization

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
By Liza Porteus
Fox News

The Justice Department on Wednesday announced the largest drug bust in 10 years as it rounded up more than 400 members of a Mexico-based cartel distributing tons of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines in the United States.

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced the roundup Wednesday during a press conference in San Diego.

"Operation Imperial Emperor" targeted the Mexico-based Victor Emilio Cazares-Gastellum, a.k.a. "Victor Emilio Cazares-Salazar," drug trafficking organization, which Justice says has been responsible for supplying multi-ton quantities of cocaine, as well as large amounts of methamphetamine and marijuana, monthly to distribution cells throughout the United States.

The organization has also laundered millions of dollars generated from this illegal activity, according to the Justice Department.

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US arrests 400 in Mexican drug ring

Breitbart.com
Mar 01 2:35 AM US/Eastern

US law enforcement officials arrested 400 people and seized 18 tons (tonnes) of marijuana, cocaine and other narcotics as it broke up a Mexican drug ring, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

More than 66 people were arrested Wednesday in California, Arizon and Illinois, the department said, capping a 20-month investigation into the network run by Mexico-based Victor Emilio Cazares-Gastellum, also know as Victor Emilio Cazares-Salazar.

Justice authorities valued the drug haul at 45.2 million dollars, including more than 27,000 pounds of marijuana (12,250 kilograms), 9,500 pounds (4,300 kilograms) of cocaine, over 900 pounds (410 kilograms) of pure and impure methamphetamine, and 11 pounds (five kilograms) of heroin.

"The Cazares-Gastellum drug empire that rose to such heights of power in only two years, fell today at the hands of DEA and our partners," said Drug Enforcement Administration administrator Karen P. Tandy.

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