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	CNN.com - Alleged leader of Mexican drug cartel arrested - Mar. 14, 2003
		Osiel Cardenas, 35, is the alleged leader of the Gulf of Mexico cartel and is listed as one of the U.S. Customs Service's "most wanted" criminals.
		Cardenas is accused of threatening to kill several U.S. drug and customs agents and has supposedly run a drug smuggling operation for several years that has shipped tons of marijuana and cocaine into the United States.
		A year later, Cardenas was indicted by a federal grand jury in Brownsville, Texas, on charges of assaulting a federal police officer and narcotics smuggling.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/LAW/03/14/mexican.drug.lord (439 words)

	CNN.com - Mexican drug cartels fragment - Mar. 15, 2003
		Osiel Cardenas was arrested Friday in the border city of Matamoros.
		The arrest of reputed drug cartel leader Osiel Cardenas, nearly a year after the death of a notorious drug lord and the arrest of his brother, could mark the end of an era for the narcotics kingpins who have dominated the nation for two decades.
		Cardenas, who allegedly headed an army of 300 hitmen and drug traffickers in the Gulf coast state of Tamaulipas, was so powerful he enlisted dozens of police as bodyguards.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/03/15/mexico.drugera.ap/index.html (720 words)

	USATODAY.com - Alleged drug lord arrested in Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The 35-year-old Cardenas, who had a $2 million bounty on his head, allegedly lead the Gulf of Mexico cartel and was the third major drug boss toppled in the last year, Vega said.
		Cardenas was flown to an undisclosed location to await arraignment.
		Cardenas is believed to be linked to the killings of four Mexican anti-drug agents in recent months.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-03-14-mexico-drug-lord_x.htm (745 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| 'Drug boss' captured in Mexico
		Osiel Cardenas was arrested in the northern Mexican city of Matamoros, in Tamaulipas state, on the border with Texas, Mexican Defence Secretary General Gerardo Vega Garcia told a news conference.
		Mr Cardenas is the alleged head of the notorious Gulf cartel, responsible for smuggling drugs across the border into the United States.
		Mr Cardenas' arrest is the latest blow to the cartel, after his alleged right-hand man was arrested in Mexico last year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/2852197.stm (383 words)

	Famed Mexican journalist analyzes drug lords and prison raid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (the imprisoned drug lord who heads Mexico’s Gulf Cartel) is thinking about revenge.
		Worse yet: Osiel will not be able to send messages with parents, children or siblings of other prisoners.
		Thus there are three risks: recapture by the army; death at the hands of the Osiel followers; and reprisal by Carrillo Fuentes for having killed his brother Rodolfo.
	www.mexidata.info /id373.html (1070 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		Allegedly the leader of the Gulf drug cartel and the third major drug boss to fall in the last year, Cardenas was arrested in Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, Defense Secretary Gen. Gerardo Vega Garcia told a news conference.
		At least two Mexican soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in the shootout with Cardenas' gunmen, who Vega said numbered at least 300 throughout the border state of Tamaulipas.
		Cardenas, 35, is believed to be linked to the killing of four Mexican anti-drug agents in recent months.
	uttm.com /stories/2003/03/14/world/printable544070.shtml (656 words)

	Cae Osiel Cárdenas, cabeza del Cartel del Golfo ::..Visión Política
		A pesar del arresto de Osiel Cárdenas, el general Vega García aceptó que el cártel del Golfo no ha sido desintegrado totalmente, y ahora se investigará y se hará labor de inteligencia para saber quien "llenará" su lugar.
		Antes de ser encarcelado por sexta vez en su vida, Osiel permaneció durante 20 horas en el Campo Militar Número 1, a donde llegaron fiscales de la Unidad Especializada contra la Delincuencia Organizada para requerirle su testimonio, pero se negó a rendirlo.
		Cabe señalar que Osiel Cárdenas las agencias antidrogas de Estados Unidos lo consideran altamente peligroso y es señalado como uno de los principales responsables del envío de cocaína y mariguana a su país.
	www.visionmx.com /politica/noticias/03232003.htm (688 words)

	DEA Briefs & Background, Law Enforcement, Major Operations, Operation Impunity II
		The individuals arrested faced a variety of federal charges for their involvement in smuggling thousands of pounds of cocaine and marijuana from Mexico, across the southwest border into Texas, for distribution throughout the United States.
		The three-phases of these investigations, clearly demonstrate the tenacity of some trafficking organizations and the need for law enforcement to continuously investigate groups that are large and well-established.
		Osiel Cardenas-Guillen (top) and two of is lieutenants - Juan Manuel Garza Rendon (center) and Adan Medrano (bottom) - were charged with assault on an FBI agent and a DEA agent in Matamoros, Mexico, on November 9, 1999.
	www.dea.gov /major/impunity.html (401 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Gifts of a Mexican Drug Lord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cardenas, 37, a former police officer, also sent thousands of dollars for relief supplies to the border city of Piedras Negras in April after floods that killed more than 30 people.
		City officials, apparently unhappy that Cardenas was paving the road, sent their own employees, who dug up all the work his men had done, leaving the road a mud pit for another month, Carmona said.
		Carmona said that the families of many of the children in her home had been destroyed by drugs and their parents were in jail or dead.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A29659-2004Jun9?language=printer (1465 words)

	News from DEA, News Releases, 03/21/03
		March 21 - One of the most wanted, feared, and violent drug traffickers in the world was captured on March 14th by law enforcement in Mexico.
		Osiel Cardenas-Guillen was head of a major Mexican drug trafficking organization that controlled large-scale marijuana and cocaine trafficking from Mexico to the United States.
		The Cardenas-Guillen organization, formerly known as the Gulf Cartel, was responsible for the transportation of thousands of kilograms of drugs into the United States from Colombia through Mexico's Northeastern region.
	www.usdoj.gov /dea/pubs/pressrel/pr032103.html (211 words)

	Mexico seizes drug-corrupted prison \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		A lawyer for Cardenas, Mauricio Trujillo Chavarria, said three people had been killed and eight wounded during the takeover, but that could not be verified.
		In recent months, Cardenas and Arrellano have joined forces while behind bars, and they are now waging a violent campaign to protect their turf from incursions by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and other traffickers from Sinaloa who control Ciudad Juarez, Mexican prosecutors said.
		The imprisoned drug traffickers, both of whom are awaiting extradition to the United States on drug charges, have continued to run their criminal empires, using a phalanx of lawyers as messengers to lieutenants on the outside.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/57024 (356 words)

	Border Violence on the Rise in Mexico \| INS News
		Experts on both sides of the border point to drug lord Osiel Cardenas Guillen as the probable instigator of most violence.
		The 35-year-old Cardenas is known locally as "el loco," the crazy one, because of his propensity for violent retribution against informers and rivals.
		He says there is no evidence, but that it supposed by many that Osiel Cardenas is involved and that he continues to reside in Nuevo Laredo.
	www.insnews.org /world/focus/1102/mexico.border.violence.htm (426 words)

	Illegal Immigration VS Americans for Legal Immigration PAC - Drug cartel targets agents
		They were arrested after an Oct. 29 shootout in Matamoros, Mexico, as part of an investigation by the Mexico Attorney General's Office known as "Operation Corsorio." Mexican authorities have increased their presence significantly in Tamaulipas in a law-enforcement showdown aimed at the Zetas gang.
		Accused of overseeing cocaine shipments for reputed Mexican drug lord Osiel Cardenas, who headed the Gulf cartel, Zetas' leader Gonzalez Pizana also is wanted in the United States on drug-smuggling charges.
		Cardenas was arrested last year by Mexican authorities and is awaiting trial.
	www.alipac.us /article93.html (767 words)

	AUTHORITIES ARREST PROMINENT DRUG TRAFFICKER OSIEL CARDENAS. \| North America > Mexico from AllBusiness.com
		Cardenas is being held at the La Palma maximum-security prison in Mexico state.
		Cardenas and other cartel leaders were arrested after a shootout with a Mexican military unit in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state.
		Mexican authorities said the arrest of Cardenas, a former police officer, was the result of a collaborative operation among the Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) and two units of the Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR): the Agencia Federal de Investigacion (AFI) and the Unidad Especializada contra la Delincuencia Organizada (UEDO).
	www.allbusiness.com /north-america/mexico/503467-1.html (602 words)

	Me pidieron declarar vs. Yarrington: Osiel :: México :: esmas.com
		Osiel Cárdenas comentó que no tenía ningún interés salvarse engañando a terceras personas que sólo conocía por las noticias y periódicos, lo cual para él, no era justo.
		Según Osiel Cárdenas, el combate que lleva la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) contra los cárteles de la droga es selectivo.
		Según Osiel, la violencia que se ha vivido en el interior de “La Palma” es provocada por las mismas autoridades.
	www.esmas.com /noticierostelevisa/mexico/399155.html (594 words)

	FBI warns of agent kidnap threat \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Although the plot specifically targets two unidentified agents of the FBI, the bulletin warns that "due to the nature of this immediate threat, all law-enforcement personnel are being cautioned to ensure appropriate measures are taken as well as to keep a high degree of vigilance," the bulletin stated.
		The threats originate from members of the Osiel Cardenas-Guillen cartel, the bulletin said, "an extremely violent Mexican drug trafficking organization commonly referred to as the Gulf Cartel.
		The Gulf Cartel has a presence in 13 Mexican states, operating with a paramilitary arm, integrated from ex-members of the Mexican armed forces known as the Zetas, who remain loyal to Cardenas, one of the country's most powerful cartel bosses jailed in a Mexican federal prison.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/59135 (349 words)

	Solicita EU extradición de Osiel Cárdenas :: México :: EsMas.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Osiel Cárdenas fue notificado de esta solicitud de extradición en la sala de practicas judiciales del penal federal de "La Palma", en Almoloya de Juárez, lugar en donde actualmente se encuentra preso, sujeto a varios procesos por delitos contra la salud y por un homicidio que se le imputa, ocurrido en el Estado de Tamaulipas.
		El gobierno de los Estados Unidos cuenta con 60 días hábiles, a partir de este viernes, para formalizar ante las autoridades mexicanas la extradición de Osiel Cárdenas Guillen.
		Osiel Cárdenas, líder del Cartel de Golfo (Archivo).
	www.esmas.com.cob-web.org:8888 /noticierostelevisa/mexico/339334.html (227 words)

	Valley Morning Star Online Edition
		The Los Payasonicos group may be connected with the Osiel Cardenas and the Gulf Cartel, according to a published report in a Mexican newspaper.
		Cards distributed to the estimated 17,000 adult and child attendees credited Osiel Cardenas as the celebration's sponsor.
		Cardenas was arrested on March 14, 2003 in Matamoros.
	www.valleystar.com /articles/2006/10/03/local_news/local_news1.txt (570 words)

	Drug Dealers Sponsor Children's Day in Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Even from his Mexican federal prison cell accused drug lord Osiel Cardenas could still wield considerable power and public influence.
		In Piedras Negras, Coahuila, and Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Cardenas' name surfaced in twin scandals that surfaced this week after public celebrations in honor of Children's Day in Mexico were held in the northern border cities and supposedly sponsored by the chieftain of the Gulf drug cartel.
		Horacio Ortiz Renan, the secretary of Reynosa's municipal government, said a businessman requested the use of the baseball stadium for a nonprofit event, but denied the city government had any prior knowledge that Cardenas was associated with the celebration.
	www.mexidata.info /id885.html (543 words)

	Osiel Cárdenas se queja de hostigamiento :: México :: esmas.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Osiel Cárdenas se queja de hostigamiento :: México :: esmas.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
		Fuente: AP En carta dirigida al presidente Fox, Osiel Cárdenas se queja de que la PGR lo hostiga a él y a su familia
		13, 2004.- Desde prisión, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, considerado jefe de un importante cártel mexicano del narcotráfico, denunció en una carta abierta al presidente Vicente Fox que ha sido víctima de intimidación y hostigamiento por parte de las autoridades.
	www.esmas.com.cob-web.org:8888 /noticierostelevisa/mexico/391371.html (407 words)

	As Fox Takes Reins, Police Corruption Will Be a Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Osiel Cardenas offers a glimpse into the institutional nightmare facing Fox.
		Cardenas was a police officer in Matamoros as recently as 1996, according to the Mexican attorney general's office, which has
		Cardenas represents a different kind of corruption from the scandals that periodically tarnish the Los Angeles Police Department.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /mexico/focus.htm (1329 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for cardenas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "cardenas" at HighBeam.
		Cardenas Seeks to `Mobilize' Mexico's Disenchanted;Losing Presidential Candidate Tells Supporters to Be `Prepared' to Resist Vote Results
		Mexico arrests alleged drug lord Osiel Cardenas after shootout near U.S. border
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=cardenas (221 words)

	ABC News: Mexico Extraditions Rise Sharply
		In this undated handout from the Mexican Attorney General's Office, convicted drug trafficker Osiel Cardenas is shown.
		Though Neither leading presidential candidate in Sunday's election is likely to change the current move towards more extraditions, Mexico's next president could face the toughest test yet of the countries' cooperation: the pending extradition of Osiel Cardenas to face U.S. drug trafficking charges.
		The alleged head of the feared Gulf Cartel, Cardenas is believed to be leading a turf war from his prison cell, commanding assassins to make brazen hits on police and rival traffickers as he awaits trial at the top-security La Palma prison west of Mexico City.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2137746 (449 words)

	The NarcoSphere \|\| Nuevo Laredo: a case study in macro narco-economics
		The two rival drug lords at the center of the turf war are allegedly Osiel Cardenas Guillen and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
		Cardenas, who has been in jail on drug charges in Mexico since 2003, reportedly oversees his narco-trafficking organization from prison.
		Cardenas’ primary enforcers are the Zetas, a group composed of former elite Mexican military commandos who deserted their posts to take up arms as mercenaries in the narco-market.
	narcosphere.narconews.com /story/2005/5/10/215352/497 (2293 words)

	Equipo Nizkor - U.S. to reopen consulate despite cartel turf war.
		The other is headed by Osiel Cárdenas, who is locked in a maximum-security prison near Mexico City, but whose reach still extends to the border.
		Those arrests prompted a "shift from large cartels to boutique cartels, smaller organizations which have proliferated the border states and who are locked in an internecine battle for control over turf and routes and profits," said Bruce Bagley, a professor of international studies at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla.
		The drug war in Nuevo Laredo began two years ago, when Guzmán moved 200 hit men to the border city to confront Cardenas and his Zetas, according to testimony given in January by a protected witness in a Mexican court.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/corru/doc/laredo.html (1267 words)

	Bud Life. Page three of Quick Hits, Growin' our Own and Pipeline. (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The skirmishing began in 2001 as a dispute among local drug gangs that operated with the permission of reputed Gulf drug cartel leader Osiel Cardenas.
		But Cardenas' arrest March 14 during a shootout in the nearby border city of Matamoros opened the floodgates for a wider conflict.
		With Cardenas in jail, cartels across Mexico - Michoacan, Ciudad Juarez, Sinaloa and possibly Tijuana - sensed weakness and tried to move in on the territory.
	www.budlife420.com.cob-web.org:8888 /pg3/v3e9index.html (2687 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation Featured Fugitive - Jorge Costilla-Sanchez
		An alleged former leader of an extremely powerful drug cartel,Osiel Cardenas was arrested and incarcerated in a Mexican prison during March of 2003.
		Known as the Osiel Cardenas Guillen Organization or "Gulf Cartel," its primary goal is drug-trafficking.
		This large Mexican drug cartel is responsible for the smuggling and distribution of cocaine and marijuana, as well as the money laundering of proceeds from the distribution of these drugs.
	www.fbi.gov /wanted/fugitives/cei/costilla_j.htm (363 words)

	News from DEA, News Releases, 12/14/00
		Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Wendy Chamberlin also announced a reward of up to two-million dollars for the arrest or conviction of Mexican drug trafficker Osiel Cardenas-Guillen or his two lieutenants, Juan Manuel Garza Rendon and Adan Medrano.
		In late 1999, federal investigators obtained evidence that the same organization had reorganized itself with new distribution cell managers in the United States and organizational command and control elements in Mexico.
		In addition to remnants from the Carrillo-Fuentes organization, agents learned that some members of the Mexican Gulf Cartel had also become associated with the organization, including Osiel Cardenas-Guillen, allegedly a former Gulf Cartel lieutenant.
	www.usdoj.gov /dea/pubs/pressrel/pr121400.htm (979 words)

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