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Mexican military swoops on drug cartel

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The Mexican government has landed succesive blows on one of the country's most feared drug cartels. On Saturday the military arrested Salavador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, a regional leader of the Zetas gang. Then on Sunday the Mexican navy killed Zetas founder Henrique Lazcano. The Zetas cartel has carried out some of Mexico's worst massacres, attacks and jail breaks

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