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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, January 31, 2008

Guilty plea entered in boot-skins smuggling

El Paso Times Staff
Article Launched: 01/31/2008 12:00:00 AM MST

Guilty plea entered in boot-skins smuggling

An El Paso boot retailer pleaded guilty to felony charges in connection with the smuggling of sea turtle and other exotic boot skins into the U.S. from Mexico, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Jorge Caraveo, owner of the Juárez Boot Co. in Downtown El Paso, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Denver to three counts of smuggling. Carlos Leal Barragan, of Jalisco, Mexico, pleaded guilty to one count of smuggling and one count of money laundering. Sentencing is set for April 25.

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