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Kimpatsu Hekigan

May 26, 2009, 6:42 PM

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Mayors of 10 Michoacan towns arrested in major drug sweep

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"Mexican troops rounded up 10 mayors and a string of police chiefs on Tuesday suspected of links to drug gangs in a western state, one of the biggest single corruption sweeps in the government's drug war..."

Link is here:
Mexico arrests mayors, police chiefs in drug war

Included the mayor of Uruapan...

FWIW,

K.H.

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esperanza

May 26, 2009, 8:51 PM

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Re: [kimpatsu_hekigan] Mayors of 10 Michoacan towns arrested in major drug sweep

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Since all of the arrests were made in the state of Michoacán, can we move this over to the Bajío forum?

And PS: one of the detained was the brother of Leonel Godoy Rangel--governor of Michoacán. His brother had been mayor of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, but is currently running for federal office. He was released subsequent to his detention.

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Anonimo

May 27, 2009, 2:26 AM

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Re: [kimpatsu_hekigan] Mayors of 10 Michoacan towns arrested in major drug sweep

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More details in La Jornada (en Español)

http://tinyurl.com/oorcuf

Saludos,
Anonimo

moonfam5

May 27, 2009, 11:21 PM

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I am glad to hear that Cotija was not included in that list. I'll be going down there at the end of July, and would hate to have to worry too much about retaliation.
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