Mexico captures drugs kingpin

Mexico says it has captured one of the country’s most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as “El Taliban”.

Mexico captures drugs kingpin

Mexico says it has captured one of the country’s most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as “El Taliban”.

Velazquez Caballero has been fighting a bloody internal battle with top leader of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, and officials have said the split was behind a recent surge in massacres and shootouts, particularly in northern Mexico.

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