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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2008 
Mexico Drug Kingpin Funds Protests Against Army
 Andres R. Martinez - Bloomberg
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One of Mexico's most wanted drug traffickers is funding protests against military operations in northwest Mexico where his illegal operations flourish, El Universal said.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who runs drug operations in Sinaloa, paid thousands of protesters as much as 2,000 pesos ($183.28) daily to march against a government policy to use soldiers to fight organized crime in October and November, the Mexico City-based newspaper reported, citing a military source it didn't identify.
President Felipe Calderon sent troops to Sinaloa a year ago as part of Operation Sierra Madre to combat drug trafficking, the newspaper said. Soldiers found a Ford Lobo pickup truck with explosives similar to those used by guerrillas who attacked state-owned oil pipelines in July and September, the newspaper reported.
Guzman has been a fugitive since escaping in 2001 from a federal prison in Mexico.
To contact the reporters on this story: Andres R. Martinez in Mexico City at amartinez28(at)bloomberg.net |
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