Alleged Zeta cartel leader 'El Taliban' arrested [1]

CBC News - AP, Updated 9/27/12

Mexican marines arrest Ivan Velazquez Caballero, alleged leader of a hyper-violent drug cartel

The alleged leader of a faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel known as El Taliban, center, is shown during a media presentation at the Mexican Navy's Center for Advanced Naval Studies in Mexico City, Thursday. (Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press)
 

Mexican marines acting on U.S. intelligence seized the leader of a breakaway faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, officials said Thursday, proclaiming the third such arrest in a month as a victory for a bi-national strategy focused on removing the leadership of Mexico's powerful organized crime groups.
 

Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as "El Taliban," was seized by a team of marines in the northern city of San Luis Potosi, the Mexican navy said. He becomes the 24th of Mexico's 37 most-wanted alleged cartel leaders to be killed or captured under President Felipe Calderon, who escalated Mexico's war on drug gangs days after taking office and who ends his term in two months.

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