Mexico detains 10 mayors for alleged drug ties

[BlueJessamine]

Source: Santa Fe New Mexican

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Federal forces detained 10 mayors and 18 other officials Tuesday for allegedly protecting one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels in an unprecedented anti-corruption sweep in the Pacific coast state of Michoacan.

Soldiers and federal agents fanned out across President Felipe Calderon's native state to carry out the operation, which an expert called a blow to politicians tied to traffickers in Michoacan.

The officials, who had been under investigation for six months, allegedly leaked sensitive information and provided protection to La Familia cartel, said Ricardo Najera, a spokesman for the federal Attorney General's Office. He declined to give more details to avoid compromising the case.

More than 200 federal agents burst into the state attorney general's office in Morelia to detain three of the officials.


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[mopinko]

1. piss off the wrong people, did they?

taking care of poor people or some such commie thing?