A suspected lieutenant in the Sinaloa
cartel, allegedly behind the mass murders of 350 rival Juarez cartel murders
has been arrested in Mexico. Mario Nunez
is accused of being the second highest ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel,
allegedly run by Mexico’s most wanted man, Joaquin Guzman. (Full story)
Nunez is a former police officer. He’s
suspected of being behind the mass murders of 350 people who were found in 23
mass graves in Durango State. He is
facing forty years in prison, which seems pretty light punishment. He’s also wanted in the US on drug
trafficking charges.
Nunez started working for the Juarez
cartel before switching to the Sinaloa cartel.
Nunez was allegedly hired by Guzman to take over the Juarez cartel’s
drug smuggling routes from the Juarez cartel. The Sinaloa cartel, which gets less press in
this part of the country than the Zetas, are considered at least as violent and
more powerful.
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