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Security & Strategic Review - June 2016 (ISSN 1741-4202)
URUGUAY: Los Cuinis threaten Uruguay
During a routine security check of his prison cell in Uruguay on 24 May, Gerardo González Valencia, a suspected Mexican cartel leader facing charges of money laundering, made an unprecedented threat, according to the weekly magazine Búsqueda: “I’ve been tortured, forced to be naked outside in sub-zero temperatures. Tell interior minister [Eduardo] Bonomi that if he sends his guards to torture me again, he can find the highest bridge in Uruguay, because that’s where I am going to hang him from.” The threat, which was subsequently confirmed by the Uruguayan authorities, has led to growing concerns over the impact of Mexican and other international drug-smuggling cartels in Uruguay.
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