Mexico arrests major drug cartel leader

(Vatican Radio) Mexican Authorities have achieved a law and order coup with the arrest of the Gulf drug cartel leader near to the Border with Texas. This is the second major narcotics syndicate leader to be caught in the Administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.

The US State Department had offered a five million dollar reward for the arrest of Mario Armando Ramirez Treviño -- the leader of the powerful and well established Gulf drug cartel. Mexican authorities pledged to add on three million more. This seems to have worked, because intelligence led to his discovery in the City of Rio Bravo, skirting Texas. Patrols of soldiers scoured the streets, while others set up road blocks and helicopters overflew the area. Mexican Marines made the arrest.

Ramirez was brought to Mexico City under heavy guard. It is likely the US will apply for his extradition. Last month, Mexican Marines arrested Miguel Angel Treviño Morales- the head of the Zetas drug cartel. The Zetas once worked as bodyguards and assassins for the Gulf cartel, before breaking away to form their own organized mayhem.

Joaquin Guzman Lorera, the leader of the even more powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, who bribed his way out of a Mexican Maximum security prison in 2001, has yet to be re-captured.

Listen to James Blears’ report: