SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico, June 20th, 2001
In mid-June, the Mexican government announced the arrest of one of Mexico's most notorious drug traffickers, Alcides Ramon Magana, known as El Metro.
Magana, who led southeastern operations for the Juarez drug cartel, was said to have worked closely with former Quintana Roo governor Mario Villanueva Madrid, arrested in late May in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun. The former governor had gone into hiding shortly before his term expired in April 1999, but he was detained when he resurfaced in Quintana Roo in May (see SourceMex, 2001-05-30).
Magana's arrest could cripple cartel
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