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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Mexican Army Says It Has Arrested Head of Security for Drug Cartel Chief 'El Chapo'

The Associated Press
The Mexican army announced Sunday that it had captured the head of security for Sinaloa drug cartel head Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the world's most wanted men.

The suspect, who was not identified by name, was captured in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan and will be presented to the media Monday morning, the army said.

Guzman, Mexico's top drug lord, is one of the world's richest men, and has eluded authorities by moving around and hiding since his 2001 escape from prison in a laundry truck.

The army said the man they had arrested also ran cartel activities in Durango and southern Chihuahua state, and was responsible for carrying out secret burials of cartel victims, kidnapping, extortion and arson. They did not say if the arrest moved the military closer to capturing Guzman, an arrest that would be seen as a major victory for the government of President Felipe Calderon.

Guzman is worth more than $1 billion, according to Forbes magazine, which has listed him among the "World's Most Powerful People." He has a $7 million bounty on his head, and thousands of law enforcement agents from the U.S. and other countries working on capturing him.

His cartel controls cocaine trafficking on the Mexican border with California and has moved eastward to the corridor between the Mexican state of Sonora, which borders Arizona.

Separately, Mexican soldiers discovered 13 bodies in an abandoned truck Sunday along with a message that they were killed in a war between rival drug cartels in the eastern state of Veracruz, officials said.

The bodies were found in Tamaulipas state, a few hundred yards (meters) from its border with Veracruz, according to the Tamaulipas attorney general's office.

The area has been the scene of bloody battles between the Gulf and Zetas cartels, and a pair of banners alluding to a rivalry were found in the truck, the statement from the attorney-general's office said.

On Friday, the attorney general's office in Veracruz said it had found 10 bodies in a different area along the border with Tamaulipas after receiving a tip.

On Thursday, three U.S. citizens traveling to spend the holidays with their relatives in Mexico were among those killed in a spree of shooting attacks on buses. In the spree, a group of gunmen attacked three buses in Veracruz, killing a total of seven passengers.

The Americans killed were a mother and her two daughters who were returning to visit relatives in the region.

The five gunmen who allegedly carried out the attacks were later shot to death by soldiers.

Earlier, the gunmen also killed four people in the nearby town of El Higo, Veracruz.

Local police in Veracruz have become so corrupt that on Wednesday the government decided to dissolve the entire force in the state's largest city, also known as Veracruz, and sent the Navy in to patrol. Some 800 police officers and 300 administrative employees were laid off.

14 comments:

  1. Damn i got so scared tuaght they captured el Chapo

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  2. its only a matter of time no this guy knows way to much about Chapo. Chapo is going to have to abandon everything thins guy knows of hopefully he has a plan-b that know knows of the hide like a spear mountain fortress he built but i would be willing to bet Chapo goes down within 4 months

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  3. thats funny i thought they did too

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  4. El Bravo is head of security for El Chapo , so I hope they dont comeout with some nobody & parade him infront of cameras like he's a top dog . Also why arent any CDS members interviewed as were la barbie , el diego, el mamito ?

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  5. Yea, I think it was el bravo

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  6. Dam why we gotta wait til Monday?? O yeah its Christmas :(
    $Norteno$

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  7. El Bravo o El Fantasma???

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  8. El bravo name is brave for a reason el Fantamsa is a ghost for a reason these guys are ex spec ops they know how to kill many men get out and avoid capture you guys need to relize they where both very docarted soldiers. they proably go in and kill as many men as rambo.. you can't capture those types of guys you can't ambush them they are to smart trained in israel, u.s and other advanced countries... in counter terrorism they are prestige men, guerrila warfare, conventional warfare they have been fighting for so long they are going to be the ones defends el Chapo when U.S.A wants war with the CARTEL but guess what U.S.A is on the CDS SIDE it's proven the DEA helps them, CIA gives them planes...

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  9. @ December 26, 2011 8:09 AM .He got it.
    felipe cabrera,

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  10. Fuking thug captured : Manuel Aponte Aka Bravo

    http://notirex.com/2011/12/militares-capturan-a-jefe-de-seguridad-personal-de-el-chapo-guzman/

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  11. Chapo will never get caught, and if he does his son Ivan Archivaldo will take over. Puro Sinaloa

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