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...Maite Beltran moved to the UK for the second time in 2006 to find work and improve her English....
...Mexico’s capture of drug lord Héctor Beltrán Leyva – the second major security coup this year after the rearrest of Mexico’s most wanted man, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – could hardly have come at a better...
...The government has taken enormous pains to distinguish itself from that of Mr Peña Nieto’s predecessor, Felipe Calderón, whose failed war on drugs cost as many as 80,000 lives and perpetuated an image of...
...Shortly after Felipe Calderón became president of Mexico in December 2006 he launched a campaign to target organised crime, and the drugs cartels in particular....
...The admission, which came late on Friday night, followed a press conference a day earlier in which the navy presented 23-year-old Félix Beltrán León as Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar....
...More than 50,000 people have been killed in drugs-related violence since the centre-right administration of President Felipe Calderón first made fighting organised crime a priority in December 2006....
...The centre-right administration of President Felipe Calderón boasted of what it said was its fourth significant blow to the country’s drug-trafficking gangs since the end of last year....
...The capture could not have come at a better time for the administration of President Felipe Calderón, which has suffered a number of setbacks in recent weeks in its war against organised crime....
...Until his capture, he was understood to have been fighting for control of the Beltrán Leyva cartel, whose command has been in dispute since Mexican marines killed Arturo Beltrán Leyva, the cartel’s leader...
...In a statement on Thursday, centre-right President Felipe Calderón called the operation “a resounding blow to one of the most dangerous criminal organisations in Mexico and the continent”....
...Beltrán Leyva, known as “the boss of bosses”, was the biggest mafia chief to have fallen since the centre-right government of President Felipe Calderón declared war on organised crime in December 2006....
...President Felipe Calderón of Mexico pledged on Tuesday to “apply the weight of the law” against killers of the family of a marine who died last week combating drug lords....
...The latest additions sit squeezed between now-staple exhibits such as the gold-plated Colt that belonged to Alfredo Beltrán Lleyva, of the Beltran Lleva drugs cartel....
...The charges, announced by Eric Holder, US attorney-general, include the alleged leaders of the infamous Sinaloa and Beltran-Leyva cartels: Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán, Ismael “el Mayo” Zambada and Arturo Beltran-Leyva...
...Never again, will a rival politician like Manuel Rosales, Mr Chávez’s defeated rival in the 2006 presidential election, be allowed to build up political power through his control of a regional governorship...
...The campaign of Manuel Rosales, the opposition candidate, has successfully highlighted some of these concerns. Indeed, his campaign has been impressive....
...Mr Petkoff withdrew his candidacy last Friday, while Mr Borges and Mr Rosales said at the weekend that they will settle their dual between them in the next few days....
...A third reason is for the benefit of Felipe Calderón of the centre-right National Action Party (PAN), who beat Mr López Obrador last month by the narrowest of margins....
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