Mexico's
drugs war
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| Ramiro Pozos Gonzalez was defiant as he posed in front of a gold-plated AK-47 |
Police in
Mexico have arrested the alleged leader and founder of a criminal group known
as La Resistencia.
Ramiro
Pozos Gonzalez, who is accused of drug trafficking and murdering members of rival
gangs, was detained in a central Mexico state.
Police also
seized a gold-plated rifle, which reportedly had been a present to Mr Pozos
from a fellow drug baron.
Mr Pozos
was defiant, giving the thumbs up and smiling when he was paraded in front of
the media.
Gang
warfare
Counter-narcotics
Police Chief Ramon Eduardo Pequeno said Mr Pozos had been a member of the
Milenio drug cartel, smuggling marijuana and other drugs from Mexico to Texas,
in the United States.
Mr Pequeno
said that after a split in the Milenio cartel, Mr Pozos set up the La
Resistencia (The Resistance) splinter group.
The
splinter group is blamed for much of the gang warfare in the western state of
Jalisco over the past two years.
Police say
La Resistencia was behind a series of illegal roadblocks and attacks in
Jalisco, and the state capital Guadalajara, last year.
Mr Pozos is
also accused of kidnapping and extortion.
More than
55,000 people are estimated to have been killed in drug-related violence since
President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels in 2006.
Combating
drug-related violence will be one of the main challenges facing the
president-elect, Enrique Pena Nieto, when he is sworn in on 1 December.
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