GODFATHER
Mexico’s former defense secretary helped a cartel smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States in exchange for bribes, according to court documents unsealed Friday.https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Authorities-Top-Mexico-official-helped-smuggle-15653440.php
Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, 72 also known as “El Padrino," or “The Godfather,”
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The Arrest:
Former Mexican Defense Minister Arrested At US Airport On Suspicion Of Drug-Related Corruption
A former Mexican defense minister was arrested in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday for drug-related corruption in Mexico, according to the Mexican government.
Former Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda faces drug and money-laundering charges, a federal law enforcement official in New York said, the New York Times reported.
Zepeda is the first high-ranking military official to be in U.S. custody for these charges, according to the Times.
“There has never been a minister of defense in Mexico arrested,” former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castañeda said, according to the Times. “The minister of defense in Mexico is a guy that not only runs the army and is a military man, but he reports directly to the president. There is no one above him except the president.”
Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s foreign minister confirmed that Zepeda was taken into U.S. custody Thursday night.
Information on Zepeda’s charges were not immediately available, the Times reported. The Drug Enforcement Administration ordered Zepeda’s arrest.
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