'Key Mexico drug trafficker' held - Democratic Underground

Heidi

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Mon Aug-03-09 11:56 PM
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'Key Mexico drug trafficker' held

Source: BBC

Page last updated at 21:42 GMT, Monday, 3 August 2009 22:42 UK

Mexican authorities say they have arrested a key figure in one of the country's most violent drugs cartels.

Miguel Beraza, known as "the truck", was arrested during a church service in Michoacan, in western Mexico.

Officials said Beraza was in charge of the cartel's shipments of the synthetic drug crystal methamphetamine across the border into the US.

They said he was responsible for moving half a tonne of the drug each month, often hiding the shipment inside fruit.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8182642.stm

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blackbart99

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Tue Aug-04-09 06:19 AM
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1. THANKS BBC...

The only real news with real reporters and everything. The american media is dying. We don't know
how to do this anymore....sad but true.

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Heidi

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Tue Aug-04-09 06:24 AM
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2. Oh, I think there are plenty of US journalists who know how to do fine journalism.

Unfortunately, many of them are out of work. :(

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