She works hard for the money?
Mexico – 6 February. – Mexican authorities have detained the Juárez crime cartel’s four leading financial operatives, also seizing $162,000 belonging to the organization, the Federal Secretariat for Public Security (SSP, for its initials in Spanish) announced today.
According to an official police communication, today’s action in Cuidad Juárez resulted in the capture of a “cell” within the criminal organization dedicated to laundering money received from narcotics sales.
Among the detainees were Alejandro Rodríguez Meza and Armando Corral, both self-confessed lieutenants to Juárez crime boss Vicente Carrillo Fuentes. Also, according to documents, the number two person in the criminal organization, Miriam Elizabeth Martínez Morales, was also arrested. Martínez Morales is the wife of Rodríguez Meza.
The arrestees “returned to Mexico by land with money earned from illicit activities in the Northeastern United States: Detroit Michigan, Chicago Illinois, New York City and other locations.”
Two points: besides the obvious one that it’s people buying drugs that finance gangsters, it appears that the glass ceiling is being broken at least in SOME Mexican business sectors. I wrote about another Mafia Doña back in September 2004.
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