Maybe the Mexican police force has been watching too many Hollywood action movies these days. If indeed they have been doing so, then they must have done with great intent and concentration for the coup that they have managed to pull off in relation to a high profile drug trafficking racket is nothing short of movie stuff.
Dubbed the Queen of the Pacific, the 45-year old Sandra Avila Beltran has been one of the notorious drug traffickers in Central America. She has been on the hot list of the Central American police for years now and her arrest in front of a restaurant in the south of the capital Mexico City augurs a great deal of optimism for the drug policing authorities in the region.
Avila Beltran is the niece of the so-called Godfather of Mexican drug smuggling gang Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and her arrest along with her Colombian drug boss lover Juan Diego Espinoza Ramirez, also wanted by US authorities, is a healthy sign that the crackdown on these drug dealers is picking up momentum. Avila Beltran has been charged with facilitating the canalization of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico for the Sinaloa cartel, including nine tons confiscated from a ship in Manzanillo in 2002. She is supposed to be a key element in the drug trafficking racket n Central and South America and her capture has been hugely welcomed.
Yet more needs to be done to completely eradicate the drug trafficking crime from the region. Avila Beltran appears astonishingly calm and composed in a video interview released by the police force and something about her demeanor suggests that she is quietly confident of being released some time soon.
Both Avila Beltran and Espinoza Ramirez worked for Ismael Zambada Garcia; Garcia is himself a most wanted man in Mexico and the surrounding region but the police are yet to uncover his hideouts.
The arrests of Avila Beltran and Espinoza Ramirez are the first step towards controlling drug trafficking in the region. Should the Mexican police force sustain their affinity towards their Hollywood counterparts, they should succeed in their objective at some point of time.
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Source: Fox News
