Mexico arrests Juarez drug cartel leader

Mexican police have captured suspected Juarez drug cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, whose gang engaged in turf wars that have left thousands of people dead, authorities have said.
Carrillo Fuentes, alias "El Viceroy," was arrested by federal police in Torreon, a city in the northern state of Coahuila, a spokesman for the national security commission said yesterday.
His capture gives President Enrique Pena Nieto yet another victory against the country's major drug traffickers at a time of national outrage over fears that 43 students were killed by a police-backed gang.
The United States had offered a USD 5 million reward for information leading to the capture of the 51-year-old drug lord, whose arrest came just a week after the capture of Hector Beltran Leyva, head of the Beltran-Leyva crime family.

The FBI says Carrillo Fuentes may have scars on his face from plastic surgery.
Based in Ciudad Juarez, a city on the border with the US state of Texas, the Juarez cartel fought for control of the key drug transit route against the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

More than 10,000 people died in gang wars in Ciudad Juarez in the past eight years, becoming a symbol of Mexico's relentless drug violence.
The city was once known as the world's murder capital, but the homicide rate has dropped dramatically in recent years.
Analysts believe violence has fallen in the city because the Sinaloa cartel won the war, though officials credit police action and a crime prevention program.

The Juarez cartel was founded by Carrillo Fuentes' brother.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes, aka "The Lord of the Skies," was considered one of Latin America's biggest drug traffickers until he died during plastic surgery in Mexico City in 1997.
But some in Mexico believe that he is still alive.