Hypo Venture Capital Headlines: Leading Mexico drug gang suspect arrested
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles TimesJune 22, 2011
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Reporting from Mexico City—
A top...
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Hypo Venture Capital Headlines: Leading Mexico drug gang suspect arrested
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles TimesJune 22, 2011
http://www.
latimes.
com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-familia-20110622,0,4896911.
story
Reporting from Mexico City—
A top leader of the notorious La Familia drug-trafficking gang, locked in an especially deadly internal
fight in recent months, has been captured by Mexican federal police, authorities announced Tuesday.
Jose de Jesus Mendez, alias “El Chango,” one of Mexico’s most-wanted drug lords, was taken into
custody in the central Mexican state of Aguascalientes, apparently without a struggle, authorities said.
Mendez led a faction of La Familia, the ruthless and sometimes cult-like network that authorities say
specializes in producing and shipping methamphetamine to the United States.
La Familia is based in
Michoacan, the home state of President Felipe Calderon and a region strategically important for drug
trafficking because of its rough terrain a
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