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Juarez Cartel Kidnaps Mexican Government LEO
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Posted about 1 month ago
Head of kidnapping and organized crime investigations kidnapped in Mexico
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Authorities say gunmen have kidnapped the head of kidnapping and organized crime investigations in the Mexican border state of Coahuila. Coahuila's prosecutor's office says commander Gerardo Valdes was seized Monday by at least six men when he was driving in Saltillo, the state's capital. The office says that an unidentified man called police Monday and said that Valdes had been grabbed by the Juarez Cartel. President Felipe Calderon has deployed 25,000 soldiers across the country to battle drug gangs, which have responded with bold attacks on the military and police. More than 4,000 people have been killed in turf wars, assassinations and shootouts since 2005.
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Illicit drugs:
  major drug-producing nation; cultivation of opium poppy in 2005 amounted to 3,300 hectares yielding a potential production of 8 metric tons of pure heroin, or 17 metric tons of "black tar" heroin, the dominant form of Mexican heroin in the western United States; marijuana cultivation decreased 3% to 5,600 hectares in 2005 - just two years after a decade-high cultivation peak in 2003 - and yielded a potential production of 10,100 metric tons; government conducts the largest independent illicit-crop eradication program in the world; continues as the primary transshipment country for US-bound cocaine from South America, with an estimated 90% of annual cocaine movements towards the US stopping in Mexico; major drug syndicates control majority of drug trafficking throughout the country; producer and distributor of ecstasy; significant money-laundering center; major supplier of heroin and largest foreign supplier of marijuana and methamphetamine to the US market This page was last updated on 15 July 2008
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