In Mexico City, Mexico, 7 suspected drug traffickers were arrested for posession of over 10 tons of cocaine. They are part of the Gulf Cartel, one of the two biggest drug gangs in all of Mexico. A cartel is a group of people or a business that come together under a common cause, or goal, in this case; drug trafficking. Felipe Calderon, the relatively new president of Mexico, has made an effort to put together a group of troops whose specific focus is to go after drug traffickers. He spoke of this effort in Tamaulipas, it is a big problem because people are smuggling mass amount of cocaine and marijuana into the United States. This has been an successful operation because recently, a big time drug trafficker Sandra Avila Beltran, nicknamed "Queen of the Pacific," was arrested along side of her boyfriend, another celebrity in the world of drug trafficking, Juan Diego Espinoza. When put in front of a judge, Beltran claimed to have made these mass amounts of money by selling clothes and renting houses. She is being charged with organized crime, money laundering and conspiracy to traffic drugs.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/latinamerica/la-fg-mexico6oct06,1,2033087.story?coll=la-latinamerica
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