Posted on 03/24/2009 11:36:29 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government on Monday offered $2 million rewards each for information leading to the capture of 24 men identified as the country’s narcotics smuggling kingpins, including the bosses of the Gulf Cartel bordering far south Texas.
Topping the most-wanted list are Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada of the Sinaloa Cartel based in the Pacific Coast state.
Arturo Beltran Leyva, who leads a cartel that carries his name, carried a $2 million reward, as do the heads of the Juarez Cartel based in the violent city opposite El Paso, the La Familia Cartel that operates in Michoacan state and the Arellano Felix Cartel in Tijuana.
Mexican officials also offered $1 million rewards for the capture of lesser mob bosses working for the country’s six main syndicates.
While rewards have been offered individually for criminals in the past, this marks the first time that the government has targeted all of the country’s known gang leaders. The rewards come as President Felipe Calderon of Mexico has offered to modify his crackdown on organized crime, which has sparked widespread violence as gangsters have pushed back and battled one another.
In Washington, President Barack Obama prepared a plan to bolster Mexico’s anti-crime efforts as well as the U.S. response along the border. Obama is to visit Mexico in mid-April to discuss security and other matters with Calderon.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive Wednesday in Mexico for talks. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will fly in next week.
Calderon and other officials have reacted angrily in recent weeks to talk in Washington and elsewhere that their government’s crackdown has come up short and that Mexico verges on becoming a failed state.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office on Monday published this list of most-wanted drug trafficking suspects and their top lieutenants, and offered rewards of up to $2.1 million for information leading to their capture.
Rewards of $30 million pesos ($2.1 million) were offered for information leading to the arrest of:
The Gulf-Zetas Cartel: Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano; Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez; Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, alias “Tony Tormenta”; Miguel Angel Trevino Morales; Omar Trevino Morales; Ivan Velazquez Caballero, alias “El Taliban”; Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa.
Pacific Cartel: Joaquin Guzman Loera or Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, alias “El Chapo”; Ismael Zambada Garcia, alias “El Mayo”; Ignacio Coronel Villarreal; Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno, alias “El Azul”; Vicente Zambada Niebla, alias “El Vicentillo” (captured).
Beltran Leyva Cartel: Arturo Beltran Leyva; Mario Alberto Beltran Leyva and/or Hector Beltran Leyva, alias “El General”; Sergio Villarreal Barragan; Edgar Valdez Villareal, alias “La Barbie”.
Carrillo Fuentes Cartel: Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, alias “El Viceroy”; Vicente Carrillo Leyva.
“La Familia” Cartel: Nazario Moreno Gonzalez; Servando Gomez Martinez; Jose de Jesús Mendez Vargas, alias “El Chango”; Dionicio Loya Plancarte.
Arellano Felix Cartel: Teodoro Garcia Simental, alias “El Teo”; Fernando Sanchez Arellano, alias “El Ingeniero”.
Rewards of 15 million pesos ($1 million) were offered for each of these cartel lieutenants:
The Gulf-Zetas Cartel: Ricardo Almanza Morales; Eduardo Almanza Morales; Raymundo Almanza Morales; Flavio Mendez Santiago; Sergio Peña Solis and/or Rene Solis Carlos; Raúl Lucio Fernandez Lechuga, alias “El Lucky”; Sergio Enrique Ruiz Tlapanco.
Beltran Leyva Cartel: Francisco Hernandez Garcia, alias “El 2000”; Alberto Pineda Villa; Marco Antonio Pineda Villa; Hector Huerta Rios.
Juarez and/or Carrillo Fuentes Cartel: Juan Pablo Ledesma and/or Eduardo Ledesma.
I am shocked they’re going after the druglords this hard. Never thought it’d happen. What was Vicente Fox doing the whole time?
They'll demand to be paid a lot more than that. ;)
As I understand it the “Drug Lords” could easily offer ten times that amount for the Government! /sarc
I wonder how many of them are living happily in the United States with fake papers. They could get this off to a good start by arresting everyone in Sinaloa over the age of 14.
It’s not going to surprise me when the Mexican Drug Lords start offering $10 Million per each top Mexican government official.
They have the money and lack of constraints to do such a thing.
Not that you or your family would be around long to spend it.
Edgar “La Barbie” Valdez Villarreal is from Laredo, Texas.
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Mexico is offering $2 million each for their drug lords. Of course, that’s OUR money. Why don’t they use their own money?!?!
Hard to come up with a clever comment...seems many good ones already taken by previous Freepers! Drat...
With as whacked as the Mexican govt is....would they even be able to pay if someone turned in these drug lords?
Vicente Fox was probably one of the drug lords.
Working with them like most of the government/police in Mexico.
They must have offed someone close to him
That is a lot of money, but I don’t think I will give up my day job to become a bounty hunter. If I were on this list I would cease to trust anyone, it will probably be people in their inner circles that collects.
OUR money, kimosabe?
What a quaint concept!/SARC
Here in the US, when we inprison our drug lords, give them all they need to run their business from behind bars.
After taxes and expenses, you’ll pocket $15,000.
I hope they have pictures at the link, maybe I know a few of them, I could sure use the money.
sw
Vicente Zambada Niebla, alias “El Vicentillo” (captured)
Sigifredo Najera Talamantes (captured)
Better hurry!
SS
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