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Weekly Report - 27 February 2014 (WR-14-08)
MEXICO: ‘El Chapo’ arrest puts Peña Nieto in awkward position
Mexican security forces landed the heaviest blow to drug-trafficking in the country in decades this week after catching the biggest fish in the drug underworld, JoaquÃn ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, head of the Sinaloa/PacÃfico drug-trafficking organisation (DTO), considered to be the largest and most powerful criminal organisation in the Western Hemisphere. While such a coup has (rightly) earned the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto high praise from its key security ally - the US – Guzmán’s fate has become a delicate bilateral issue, with both countries keen to have him prosecuted by their respective judicial systems.
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