Vicente Carrillo Captured: Mexican Cops Bust Second Major Drug Lord in One Month Anahi Rama and Dave Graham - Reuters
go to original October 10, 2014

Mexican officials have arrested one of the most powerful drug lords in the country:Vicente Carillo Fuentes, Kingpin of Juarez cartel since 1997. (euronews)

MEXICO CITY - Mexico has captured the leader of the once-feared Juarez Cartel, the second drug kingpin to fall in just over a week, a government source said on Thursday.

Vicente Carrillo, long-time head of the Juarez drug cartel, had been a fierce rival of Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, who was the world's most wanted drug boss until his capture in February.

A turf war between the two cartels in 2009-2011 unleashed a bloodbath in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico's border with Texas.

Carrillo was captured in the restive northern city of Torreon, the government source said. The United States had put a $5 million bounty on Carrillo's head, while Mexico had offered a 30 million peso ($2.24 million) reward.

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