Mexican Federal Police have arrested one of Mexico’s most wanted drug dealers, Edgar Valdez Villarreal AKA “ La Barbie ” at Valdez’s mountain safehouse in Salazar, about 30 km outside of Mexico City.
La Barbie was a major drug trafficker and cocaine kingpin, distributing one ton a month of the profitable product to drug-crazy America.
Edgar Valdez Villarreal earned a reputation for extreme violence, including multiple beheadings of enemies of the Sinaloa Cartel.
It was unclear who would receive the $2,200,000 USD bounty reward for his timely arrest, just ahead of Mexico President Felipe Calderon’s state of the union speech on Wednesday.
No confirmation yet if Valdez will be extradited to the USA to stand trial.
One thing is clear, there are no winners in the war on drugs spectacle.
Mexico’s defense department is confirming that Ignacio ” Nacho ” Coronel Villareal, a capo in the Sinaloa drug cartel, was killed during a military raid in a suburb of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Coronel refused to be arrested and died in a gunfight with a unit of the Mexican army. One soldier was shot to death by ” Nacho ” before he, himself was killed.
Coronel was on the FBI’s most wanted list for cocaine and methamphetamine, charged with conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute and conspiracy to import a controlled substance.
There was a $5 Million USD reward by the US State Department and the FBI for information leading to Nacho Coronel’s capture.
More than 23,000 people have been murdered in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon declared war on Mexican drug cartels in December 2006.
Ciudad Juarez has become the world’s most dangerous city. A killing ground of unimaginable proportion, with over 5200 murders so far in 2010.
90% of the cocaine now enters the US from Mexico. 90% of weapons enter Mexico from the USA.
The drug trade betwen Mexico and the United States is an estimated $60 Billion USD business.
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