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| Top Mexican 'drug baron' arrested | Top Mexican 'drug baron' arrested |
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| One of Mexico's most-wanted alleged drug traffickers, Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental, has been arrested, officials say. | One of Mexico's most-wanted alleged drug traffickers, Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental, has been arrested, officials say. |
| He was picked up in the city of La Paz on the Baja California peninsula. Mr Garcia has been blamed for rising violence in the border city of Tijuana. | He was picked up in the city of La Paz on the Baja California peninsula. Mr Garcia has been blamed for rising violence in the border city of Tijuana. |
| A $2.3m reward had been offered for information leading his capture. | |
| He is the second alleged drug baron to be detained by the Mexican government in less than a month. | He is the second alleged drug baron to be detained by the Mexican government in less than a month. |
| Top drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed during a shootout with marines in a raid south of Mexico City on 16 December. | |
| Political priority | |
| "No shots were fired. It was a very fast operation. The investigation has been going on for a long time," a police officer who took part in the raid told Reuters. | "No shots were fired. It was a very fast operation. The investigation has been going on for a long time," a police officer who took part in the raid told Reuters. |
| Mr Garcia is believed to be behind a wave of attacks in Tijuana in recent years. | Mr Garcia is believed to be behind a wave of attacks in Tijuana in recent years. |
| Last year, a hitman called "the soup-maker" confessed to dissolving hundreds of bodies in acid for Mr Garcia. | Last year, a hitman called "the soup-maker" confessed to dissolving hundreds of bodies in acid for Mr Garcia. |
| Mr Garcia is believed to have broken off an alliance with another cartel - the Arellano Felix organisation - in January 2008. | |
| He has now allied himself with Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, head of the rival Sinaloa cartel and top of Mexico's most-wanted list. | |
| Mexican President Felipe Calderon has made a war on drug traffickers his political priority. | |
| But, since taking office in 2006, more than 15,000 people have died in spiralling drug violence in the country, above all in border regions which control the lucrative access routes into the US market. |