The decision by Mexico’s Attorney General overturns one made by a judge in May barring Arellano Felix’s extradition. Authorities suspect that Arellano Felix’s brother and sister currently control the Tijuana drug cartel.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon recently praised the police efforts to combat crime yet the deaths caused by violence between gangs and against the police has escalated:
Suspected drug hitmen killed six people in Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico on Tuesday, the latest in a killing spree that has left 41 people dead in the city since the start of the weekend, police said…
Tuesday's murders take the death toll to over 500 people in Ciudad Juarez since the start of the year, making it the most deadly city in Mexico's drug war, despite a large deployment of well-armed troops and federal police.
Not even the family members of U.S. legislators are immune from the violence; a relative of Rep. Silvestre Reyes who was living in Ciudad Juarez was kidnapped and then released according to “an internal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) memo.”
Image- New York Times
Sources- El Paso Times, CNN, AFP, Reuters UK
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