Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Want $2 million? Turn in a Mexican Drug Lord
Posted by Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Not only does crime pay, apparently, knowing criminals does, too.
Correspondents say the most-wanted list is a public challenge to the cartels.Some 8,000 people have died in the past two years, as drug gangs fight for territory amid government crackdowns.
US and Mexican agencies are increasing their co-operation as the gang violence spills over the border, where kidnaps and killings are on the rise.
The reward offer comes two days before a trip to Mexico by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and a month before President Barack Obama is due to visit.
Read the rest of this BBC News article here.
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