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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 24, 2008

Mexican forces crack down on drug cartels

Federal officers arrest 11 alleged hit men from Sinaloa cartel, raid other spots

By DUDLEY ALTHAUS
Houston Chronicle Mexico City Bureau
AP Photo by Gregory Bull

MEXICO CITY — Federal police raided two houses in an upscale neighborhood of the Mexican capital Tuesday and arrested 11 suspected gangsters linked to one of the country's powerful drug cartels.

Police also seized an arms stockpile that included 20 automatic rifles, 12 grenade launchers, 30 grenades and 40 bullet-proof vests.

The suspects appeared to have been planning an attack, a senior police commander told a news conference, and he speculated that government officials had been targeted.

Those arrested allegedly belong to the Sinaloa cartel, which smuggles narcotics to U.S. suppliers and is battling the Gulf cartel for control of trafficking routes to the United States. On Monday, an alleged top leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Alfredo Beltran Leyva, was captured in Culiacan, capital of the Pacific Coast state of Culiacan.

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