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Mexico Scores Latest Big Hit Against Drug Traffickers
 Agence France-Presse
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December 14, 2010
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – Mexico scored the latest in a year-long string of successes against the country's bloody drug traffickers, arresting a leading kingpin from the notorious Sinaloa cartel and fatally shooting his brother.
Police late Sunday arrested Enrique Lopez of the notorious Sinaloa drug trafficking operation based in the northern Mexico town of Chihuahua.
His brother, Ever Horacio Lopez, was shot and killed in the standoff with police, officials here said in a statement on Monday.
The men were lieutenants of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, said to be Mexico's most wanted man, who is believed to have escaped.
Some 800 police and military units fanned out in the town of Delicias in eastern Chihuahua during the operation.
The announcement of the government's latest killing and capture of a feared cartel leader comes almost exactly one year after its first big hit -- the fatal shooting of drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva in a dramatic shootout with the navy south of Mexico City.
Meanwhile, Mexican troops on Thursday killed another drug world capon: Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, a top leader of the "La Familia" drug cartel, who was shot down after three days of running gun battles in Michoacan, the home state of President Felipe Calderon.
Moreno was among several members of the group to be gunned down Thursday in the town of Apatzingan, in a significant blow to the brutal cartel.
And in another major victory earlier this year, authorities in September arrested one of Mexico's most wanted men, alleged drug trafficker Sergio Villarreal, who was said to work for the Beltran-Leyva cartel, in the central Mexican city of Puebla.
Since 2006, Mexican authorities have been battling a spiraling wave of drug-related crime and murder that has killed more than 28,000 people and that has deployed some 50,000 troops across the country.
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