Coupled with several other arrests or killings of major cartel figures this year – including yesterday's arrest of La Familia cartel leader José Alfredo Landa Torres in Michoacán – Gallegos' capture offers the best hope yet that Juárez residents can, at least momentarily, experience some relief from the daily beheadings and other terrorist acts that had made it the murder capital of the world. Mexican law enforcers finally are showing signs of significant progress. ...
This is a time to rejoice that a vicious reputed mass murderer is off the streets, but it's no time for hubris. Tougher, smarter, bolder remains the battle call in a drug war where the enemy has proven highly adaptable and decapitation tends to pose only a temporary setback." Nov. 30, 2010
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