Mexico captures elusive drug kingpin 'The Barbie'
By Alexandra Olson | China Daily | Updated: 2010-09-01 07:51
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Major drug trafficker Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez is escorted by Mexican federal police during a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City on Tuesday. Henry Romero / Reuters |
MEXICO CITY - Texas-born fugitive Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "The Barbie," is the third major suspected drug lord to fall in Mexico in the past 10 months and a coup for President Felipe Calderon in his embattled war on powerful cartels.
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