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| Mexico 'arrests drug baron Carrillo' | Mexico 'arrests drug baron Carrillo' |
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| The alleged leader of the Juarez drug cartel - one of Mexico's most powerful crime syndicates - has been arrested, government sources say. | |
| Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, known as "the Viceroy", was held in the northern city of Torreon. | |
| The arrest is the latest in a series of high profile operations against drug lords in Mexico this year. | |
| He is said to have waged war with the rival Sinaloa gang over control of trafficking routes to the US. | |
| The war left thousands dead in and around Ciudad Juarez on the border with the United States between 2009 and 2011. | |
| The US had offered a reward of $5m for his arrest. | |
| Vicente Carrillo Fuentes took over the cartel from his brother Amando, nicknamed "Lord of the Skies", who died in 1997 after a botched cosmetic surgery operation. | |
| Amando got his nickname by flying planeloads of drugs into the US, but his brother Vicente carried on trafficking on a more modest scale. | |
| Despite recent news reports about its decline, the Juarez Cartel remains one of the most powerful criminal organisations in Mexico and the region. | |
| The cartel maintains a firm foothold in Ciudad Juarez and the Valle de Juarez, which remains the key corridor for transporting illegal drugs into the US. | |
| Correspondents say it still has some measure of control over the local and state police, as well as some politicians. |