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Arturo Beltran Leyva, leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, died in a raid outside Mexico City on Dec. 16, 2009. Mexican soldiers killed the Sinaloa cartel's No. 3 capo, Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, on July 29 of this year. On Aug. 30, federal police announced the capture of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "La Barbie," and on Sept. 12 Mexican marines captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, another presumed Beltran Leyva leader. The Safety Department said the arrest of two alleged drug traffickers Friday afternoon in the historic city of Patzcuaro outside of Morelia sparked roadblocks and car fires on the road between the two cities in the western state of Michoacan, which is controlled by La Familia cartel. The department said the vandalism was part of an attempt to free the detained men from federal custody. Authorities in Guerrero state said Friday relatives of 20 tourists from Michoacan who went missing in the resort city of Acapulco have identified the remains of five of them among 18 bodies found buried in a clandestine grave. Fernando Monreal, investigative police chief for Guerrero state, said relatives of the men abducted Sept. 30 recognized personal belongings and identifying marks on their bodies. Earlier in the day, Mexican authorities announced that eight members of a drug cartel were arrested in the torture and slaying of the brother of a former state attorney general. The body of Mario Angel Gonzalez Rodriguez was found half-buried in a house under construction in Chihuahua city after one of the suspects told officials where they could find him, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas told a news conference. Gonzalez had been forced to appear at gunpoint in a video saying his sister worked for a rival gang. More than 28,000 Mexicans have been killed in drug-related violence since Calderon launched a national assault on organized crime in late 2006. The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a recent report that at least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed since December 2006.
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