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...TOWN OF VILLA JUAREZ, just south of Monterrey, 15 Mexican drug agents spent most of Jan. 14 crouched outside a walled ranch house. The agents had received a critical tip: Juan Garcia Abrego, one of Mexico's most powerful drug dealers, was inside. At 7 p.m., the team moved in. They smashed through the front gate in a minivan, taking Garcia Abrego and two bodyguards by surprise. As the druglord dashed out a back door and tried to launch his portly frame over a fence, agents grabbed him by the shirt. Twenty minutes later, the man who had shipped perhaps...
HOUSTON: Juan Garcia Abrego, Mexico's second most powerful drug lord, calmly stood in a Houston courtroom today and listened as a 20-count indictment was read against him. Abrego, one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives, was arrested by Mexican authorities Sunday after a lengthy manhunt, and was turned over the next day to U.S. officials. Latin American bureau chief Laura Lopez reports: "From the perspective of the U.S., Abrego's arrest and deportation is very positive. Relations between the two countries had begun to sour recently amid speculation about government corruption and complicity in the drug...
Mexico has five identifiable cartels, and U.S. officials say that a power shift seems to be taking place in their ranks. The Garcia Abrego family, the purported leaders of the once dominant Gulf cartel that controls drug trade along Mexico's east coast, have recently received arrest warrants from the Mexican Attorney General's office for an alleged -- but as yet unproved -- connection to the murder of Josa Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the deputy attorney general of the country's ruling political party. The heads of the Tijuana cartel, the Arrellano Falix brothers, have also come under pressure for their suspected...
...named a Mexican drug lord to its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list, the first time an international drug trafficker ever made the roster. Juan Garcia-Abrego, whose Gulf Cartel has shipped tons of Colombian cocaine to the U.S., is under investigation for bribing a former Mexican deputy attorney general to protect his organization. That official, Mario Ruiz Massieu, is now the center of a massive corruption scandal that has shakenMexicoto the core. Ruiz Massieu's brother, a top political official, was murdered in September, allegedly in a plot masterminded by the brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Ruiz...
...ties to the northern state of Tamaulipas, which is the base for a ring of drug traffickers known as the Gulf Cartel. Indeed, it was Ruiz Massieu himself who headed the government's antidrug efforts and led a crackdown against the cartel, publicly targeting its elusive chief, Juan Gracia Abrego. Now Abrego stands accused of having put up the $330,000 allegedly paid for the assassination...