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Mexico captures reported drug lord ‘the Barbie’ (AP)

August 31st, 2010

In this image released by Mexico's Public Safety Department on Monday Aug. 30, 2010, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias 'the Barbie,'' is escorted by police officers in the state of Mexico, which borders the capital, Mexico City. Federal police on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, captured Valdez Villarreal, a Texas-born alleged drug kingpin, who faces trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in central Mexico.(AP Photo/Mexico's Public Safety Department)AP - Texas-born fugitive Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias “the Barbie,” is the third major suspected drug lord to fall in Mexico in the past 10 months and a coup for President Felipe Calderon in his embattled war on powerful cartels.


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