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Security & Strategic Review - October 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: Two more narco kingpins fall to federal forces
The top leaders of two of the nine main drug-trafficking cartels the government still considers active were captured in October. The first to be arrested was Héctor Beltrán Leyva, boss of the cartel known by his surname. The next one was Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, boss of the Juárez cartel (also known by his surname). Both these cartels were said to have been represented at a ‘summit’ earlier this year with the leaders of two other organisations, Los Zetas and the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).
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