Mexico is the Taliban with a little pagan version of Catholicism thrown in for respectability.
They also have the BIGGEST egos.
More news from Nafbpo:
Men Arrested with $4 Million in Cash at Mexican Airport
CANCUN, Mexico Two Mexicans were arrested by authorities at the international airport in this resort city when they tried to fly to Colombia carrying more than $4 million in cash, the director of international affairs for Mexicos customs service said.
At the inauguration of the 5th Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting & Piracy, Jose Padilla told the press that the arrest took place Monday, and that the suspects were traveling on a flight from Guadalajara that touched down in Cancun before leaving for Cali, Colombia.
The customs agents detected the passengers who were traveling on a Copa Airlines plane with two suitcases full of U.S. dollars.
Those under arrest, identified as Hugo Francisco Acosta Rodriguez and Omar Oswaldo Gonzalez, were carrying an undeclared total of $4,113,600 in cash.
Padilla said that the suspects are being held at a local lockup of the Mexican Attorney Generals Office under a strong security guard that includes soldiers of the Mexican army, since they could be involved in drug trafficking.
Recent months have seen several large seizures of cash en route from Mexico to Colombia, source of the cocaine that Mexican cartels smuggle into the United States
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Corrupt Cop Turned States Witness Slain in Mexico
MEXICO CITY A former high-ranking federal police officer who agreed to testify against the drug traffickers who paid him off was gunned down Tuesday in the Mexican capital, authorities told Efe.
They identified the victim as Edgar Enrique Bayardo Del Villar, who worked until late 2008 as a police inspector for the federal Public Safety Department.
Bayardo was killed around 11:30 a.m. at a Starbucks in Mexico Citys Del Valle district.
As a protected federal witness, Bayardo was usually accompanied by bodyguards, but it remains unclear whether his escorts were with him at the time of the shooting.
Bayardo turned states witness almost immediately after he was arrested in October 2008 on accusations that he worked for Jesus El Rey (The King) Zambada, a top figure in the Pacific drug cartel.
Within days of his arrest, authorities busted two senior police officers one of them a close associate of Bayardo for protecting drug shipments that passed through the capitals international airport.
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