One drug king caught, 43 students still missing in Mexico

Mexican police have captured suspected Juarez drug cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, whose gang engaged in turf wars that have left thousands of people dead, authorities said Thursday. The United States had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of the 51-year-old drug lord, and The FBI says Carrillo Fuentes may have scars on his face from plastic surgery. More than 10,000 people died in gang wars in Ciudad Juarez in the past eight years, becoming a symbol of Mexico’s relentless drug violence.

I commit myself to significantly lowering the homicide rate, the number of kidnappings in the country, the extortions and the human trafficking

President Enrique Pena Nieto during his 2012 campaign.

His capture gives President Enrique Pena Nieto yet another victory against the country’s major drug traffickers at a time of national outrage after Mexican authorities found four new mass graves in the investigation into the disappearance of 43 students. The number of bodies in the pits is unknown. A total of 34 people, including 26 Iguala police officers, have been arrested in the case. Prosecutors attribute the Sept. 26 disappearances to police, who killed six and wounded at least 25 in two separate attacks, after which officers rounded up some students and drove off with them.

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