News From the Border

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.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Mexico captures senior drug cartel member

Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:49 PM ET

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's army has arrested a leading member of one of the country's most notorious drug cartels, the attorney-general's office said on Monday.

Soldiers detained Alfredo Beltran Leyva on Sunday in the northwestern city of Culiacan, a spokeswoman for the office said. Beltran Leyva and three other people arrested with him were carrying some $900,000 in cash in two suitcases.

Prosecutors say Beltran Leyva is a close associate of Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, Mexico's most wanted man and the head of an alliance of smugglers based in Sinaloa state.

The Sinaloa gang is in a bitter fight with the rival Gulf Cartel, based just south of Texas, for control of smuggling routes.

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