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...last year's indictment of Mexico's federal police chief and other top cops for alleged narco-corruption - was fatally riddled with bullets by two hit men dressed in suits as he sipped coffee in a Starbucks. Last month, Jesús Zambada, the nephew of a top drug-cartel boss, Ismael (El Mayo) Zambada, was found dead in the federal safe house where he was being guarded. Officials say he hanged himself, but few in Mexico are buying that. (See pictures of Ciudad Juárez, the most dangerous city in the Americas...
...utmost importance that new and specific rules" be adopted in Mexico for witness protection - and Bayardo's murder could prompt that reform. Described by officials as a "collaborating witness," Bayardo was arrested last year for allegedly taking $25,000 a month from the powerful Sinaloa cartel (headquartered in Mexico's northern Pacific state of Sinaloa) in exchange for information about police operations. Since then he had been providing crucial testimony not only regarding drug trafficking, but also about links between federal police bosses and Sinaloa capos...
...build a proper protection apparatus when the Mexican cops assigned to do the protecting can so rarely be trusted. The Mexican government has vowed to investigate Bayardo's murder; presumably one of the key focuses will be whether any officers inside the witness-protection program itself tipped off cartel bosses as to his movements and whereabouts...
...championing the BCS system, created a decade ago by a cartel of college presidents and commissioners from the country's elite athletic institutions, Hancock is essentially defending the OPEC of college football. "I think what's been missing in this is some reasonable dialogue," he says. "The other side has had the field to themselves. And it's time for us to be on the field talking with people." To that end, Hancock and the BCS have hired high-level help. President George W. Bush?s former press secretary, Ari Fleischer, has joined the effort to spruce up the image...
...authorities arrested more than 300 people associated with a Mexican drug cartel in a two-day crackdown that spanned 38 U.S. cities. The arrests, part of a four-year operation known as Project Coronado, focused on the newest of Mexico's five major drug cartels, La Familia--now the dominant player in the U.S. market for Mexican methamphetamines. So far, more than 1,200 people have been arrested through the Project Coronado effort...