01-19-2011 08:57 BJT
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Mexican police have arrested the alleged founder of the Los Zetas drug cartel, Flavio Mendez Santiago, in the state of Oaxaca.
Mendez Santiago is accused of taking part in violent killings to eliminate rival drug gangs, and trafficking migrants from Central America.
He's also said to have smuggled drugs from Central America. Los Zetas is the most feared gang in Mexico.Its members are suspected of killing more than 40 Central American migrants in Oaxaca last month.
Their vicious tactics, geographic reach and expansion into new illegal businesses present a new kind of threat in a drug war, which has already killed 34-thousand people since late 2006.
President Felipe Calderon's government is pursuing the Zetas and half a dozen other major drug cartels, as the government struggles to shake the view that violence is slipping out of control.
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