CBC News - AP, Updated 9/27/12
Mexican marines arrest Ivan Velazquez Caballero, alleged leader of a hyper-violent drug cartel
The alleged leader of a faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel known as El Taliban, center, is shown during a media presentation at the Mexican Navy's Center for Advanced Naval Studies in Mexico City, Thursday. (Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press)
Mexican marines acting on U.S. intelligence seized the leader of a breakaway faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, officials said Thursday, proclaiming the third such arrest in a month as a victory for a bi-national strategy focused on removing the leadership of Mexico's powerful organized crime groups.
Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as "El Taliban," was seized by a team of marines in the northern city of San Luis Potosi, the Mexican navy said. He becomes the 24th of Mexico's 37 most-wanted alleged cartel leaders to be killed or captured under President Felipe Calderon, who escalated Mexico's war on drug gangs days after taking office and who ends his term in two months.
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Cartels produce enough ganja
Cartels produce enough ganja to heal the entire world of cancer, we really need to rethink our viewpoints on 'drugs"
Cartels
Cartels like the ones we've reported engage in activities like murder, kidnapping, extortion, intimidation, and arms-dealing. They are very violent.
And then there's Juarez
We really do need to focus some love energy on Juarez, where women disappear on their way home from work.
Love, Astreia
Cartels
Cartels. Cabals. Crimes. Capos. Let's see, what other words start with C..... oh, yes, cannibis.
Governments make so much money with the "war on drugs" strategy, it's amazing.
So why are these guys so heavily armed, so violent, so......Creepy.....
Where do they get all that ammunition? How do they decide who to kill?
I think it is another shadow play.
Love and blessings, Astreia
Oh! I just thought of another one!
Cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C.
Not that this is relevant, but they are all over our computers.
We need a Cosmic Cookie Monster to eat them all up.
I love Sesame Street. Says-a-me Street.