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“Ex-governor rearrested in Mexico, may be extradited to U.S.”
Houston Chronicle ^ | June 22, 2007 | Dudley Althaus
Posted on 06/22/2007 5:28:55 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MEXICO CITY — Mexican police rearrested a former governor Thursday as he was released from prison with the intent of extraditing him to the United States to face cocaine-trafficking charges.
Mario Villanueva, 58, who governed the Yucatan Peninsula state that includes the resorts of Cancun and the Riviera Maya from 1993 until 1999, was arrested at dawn, moments after finishing a six-year sentence here for money laundering.
He faces federal charges in New York of taking part in a conspiracy to smuggle as much as 200 tons of cocaine into the United States while governor of Quintana Roo state. Much of the cocaine was smuggled through South Texas, authorities said.
U.S. officials accuse him of receiving at least $30 million from members of the Juarez Cartel in exchange for providing political and police protection.
The organization was Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking gang in the mid to late 1990s until the death of its boss, Amado Carrillo Fuentes. The cartel underling who allegedly paid Villanueva was sentenced to 47 years in prison in Mexico on Tuesday.
Villanueva’s probable extradition comes as President Felipe Calderon’s government struggles to bring Mexico’s powerful drug gangs to heel.”
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“Fugitive linked to Zetas captured in Roma [South Texas]”
The Monitor ^ | June 22, 2007 | Jeremy Roebuck and Martha Leticia Hernandez
Posted on 06/22/2007 6:59:41 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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