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    Mexico's former defense secretary arrested in L.A. on a DEA warrant

    Former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on a Drug Enforcement Administration warrant, three U.S. law enforcement officials told NBC News late Thursday.


    The arrest was confirmed by Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard via Twitter, who said he was informed of the detention by the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Christopher Landau.


    "The Consul in Los Angeles will be informing me of the charges in the next few hours," wrote Ebrard. "I will keep you posted."


    Charges along with the exact details and circumstances of the arrest have yet to be announced. DEA officials did not elaborate on which DEA office was handling Cienfuegos' case.


    General Cienfuegos, 72, served as defense minister from 2012 to 2018 under former Mexican President Enrique Peņa Nieto and was a powerful figure in the country's drug war, in which the military battled cartels across the country.

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    Good. Mexico is a broken nation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Good. Mexico is a broken nation.
    That's the way the US wants it

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    I've been watching El Chapo.

    It's startling how much of it is actually true.

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    Arrest of former Mexican defense minister shakes military

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — The arrest of Mexico’s former defense minister in the United States on charges that he protected a drug cartel in exchange for bribes is a blow to Mexico’s military, one of the few institutions that had maintained the confidence of the people.


    Until Thursday’s arrest of retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos at Los Angeles International Airport, the military was still respected by virtue of appearing to be largely above the corruption commonly seen in other pieces of Mexico’s security apparatus, despite documented human rights abuses.


    For Mexico’s last three presidents at least, the military was the security force that could be deployed against the country’s powerful drug cartels. U.S. prosecutors’ allegations that Cienfuegos was nicknamed “the Godfather” and carried on direct conversations with the leader of a violent cartel moving cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin into the United States led many Mexicans to wonder: what now?


    “Now we’re in a really complicated situation because now nobody can help us,” said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, an associate professor with George Mason University. “You can’t argue anymore that you’re going to send in the army because it’s the least corrupted institution. It’s the same or more corrupt than the others.”

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