MEXICO: MEXICO SOLDIERS CAPTURE ARTURO HERNANDEZ , HEAD OF POWERFUL COCAINE CARTEL
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861004
MEXICO: MEXICO SOLDIERS CAPTURE ARTURO HERNANDEZ , HEAD OF POWERFUL COCAINE CARTEL
- Title: MEXICO: MEXICO SOLDIERS CAPTURE ARTURO HERNANDEZ , HEAD OF POWERFUL COCAINE CARTEL
- Date: 4th April 2003
- Summary: (W2) MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (FILE) (REUTERS) SLV MEN STACKING COCAINE CARGO FROM JUAREZ CARTEL VARIOUS, OF PARCELS OF COCAINE (2 SHOTS)
- Embargoed: 19th April 2003 13:00
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- Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
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- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
- Reuters ID: LVA5UWXSYNFDPE0JYSLM0GDOXRC4
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- Story Text: Mexican troops have captured a kingpin of the powerful Juarez drug cartel who was fighting a turf war to take control of another gang that was recently thrown into disarray with the arrest of its boss.
Mexican troops captured one of the country's leading drug traffickers and several of his associates on Friday (April 4, 2003), officials confirmed.
Authorities said Arturo Hernandez Gonzalez, alias "El Chaqui," chief assassin for the Juarez cartel who liked to kill foes by burying them alive in oil drums filled with cement, was nabbed on along with eight other cartel members in a series of unopposed predawn raids in seven Mexican states.
"The capture of Arturo Hernandez Gonazalez, alias 'el Chaki' was achieved along with eight members of the organisation who operated in the previously mentioned states and as the public knows, Arturo Hernandez Gonzalez 'el Chaki' is a man who operated in the Carrillo Fuentes cartel as the right hand man," Attorney General Rafael Macedo told reporters.
El Chaqui was the right hand man of Vicente Carrillo, who took over as head of the Juarez cartel from his brother Amado Carrillo who died in 1997 after plastic surgery went wrong.
Macedo told a news conference that El Chaqui, who tortured enemies by wrapping them in barbed wire and then giving them electric shocks, was trying to expand the Juarez gang's influence to control regions that have been in the hands of the Gulf cartel.
The Gulf cartel was severely weakened three weeks ago when Mexican troops ambushed and captured its head Osiel Cardenas, one of the most wanted drug fugitives in the United States and Mexico.
The Juarez cartel is named after and operates around the city of Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso in west Texas. The Gulf cartel is based in Tamaulipas state bordering east Texas and controls drug routes to the United States along the Gulf of Mexico. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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