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"Vast Web Hides Mexican Drug Profits in Plain Sight, U.S. Authorities Say"

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Post by CheenaGringo Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:49 am

From NEW YORK TIMES:

"TLAJOMULCO, Mexico — The United States calls Hugo Cuéllar Hurtado a longtime trafficker of the cocaine coming from South America, working with one of the men believed to command Mexico’s biggest drug cartel now that its leader, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, has been captured.

But while Mr. Guzmán — known as El Chapo, or Shorty — spent 13 years on the run, sometimes even escaping through underground tunnels dug under bathrooms, Mr. Cuéllar walks freely around Guadalajara, attending luncheons and chatting up diplomats. He says he even won a government grant for an ostrich farm he runs here.

“Let them come and investigate me,” he said leisurely over a breakfast of ostrich steaks and sausages at his 57-acre ranch, which the Treasury Department just designated a money-laundering pit for Mr. Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel. “I have nothing to hide.”.............

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/world/americas/suspected-of-shielding-mexican-drug-profits-but-hiding-in-plain-sight.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

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