Blog 3: Latest Mexico drug arrest may cripple Gulf cartel By: Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times

Sept. 14 2:00pm

On September 13 the Los Angeles Times reported that one of the top leaders on one of the top drug cartels in Mexico had been brought to justice being one of two big busts in the past 10 days. The whole thing started with the arrest of Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez. Before the arrest the reporters said that his bodyguards were involved in a gun fight and when some fled they led troops right to Costilla’s hide-out. Masked marines then raided the hide-out and subdued Costilla who came easily when he was revealed to the news he was straight faced in front of a table with ammunition and some high-priced jewelry all captured during the raid. Costilla was one of the most-wanted in Mexico and had a reward of $2.3 million and across the border the US had a $5 million bounty on his head. Costilla is in link with the Sinaloa cartel, another major Mexican cartel, which helped Costilla in the cartel battle against the Zetas paramilitary force. This fight spreading over Mexico’s land with bloodshed including beheadings and massacres of migrants. These violent acts do not just affect the members in the cartels innocent civilians are kill throughout the time the cartels are fighting for turf.

While reading this article it made me think of not only the people in Mexico or America involved but the others not mentioned in the article. The Mexican drug cartel is the source for most drugs going in to not only the US but most of Central America who then exports it further than the Americas making it a worldwide business. The leads from one drug case to another then give anti-drug agencies the ammunition to capture the members. By capturing one leader at a time the cartel then gets weaker and weaker soon to be then dismantled.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-gulf-cartel-20120914,0,3376850.story