The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
Aug 1, 2011
Whack-a-mole Drug War: Kingpin Wanted in U.S. Consulate Deaths Is Held in Mexico
Kingpin Wanted in U.S. Consulate Deaths Is Held in Mexico - NYTimes.com: "A principal leader of a drug gang who the authorities believe was the mastermind behind the killings of three people connected to a United States consulate in northern Mexico last year and other bloody attacks has been captured, Mexico’s federal police said Sunday.
The leader, José Antonio Acosta Hernández, a former police officer known as El Diego, was arrested Saturday. The police said that he confessed to ordering 1,500 killings as the head of La Línea in Ciudad Juárez, the country’s most violent city."
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