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October 16, 2020

Mexican Ex-Defense Secretary Arrested in L.A. on Drug and Money Laundering Charges
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Mexico's former defense secretary, General Salvador Cienfuegos, was
arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday while on a
family vacation. He was arrested on a warrant by the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration. He served as defense secretary from 2012 to
2018 under former Mexican President Enrique Peņa Nieto. The Mexican
magazine Proceso reports the arrest was connected to a corruption probe
involving drug traffickers. Cienfuegos was defense secretary in 2014 at
the time of the disappearance and presumed massacre of 43 students from
a teachers' college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. Last month Mexican
authorities issued arrest warrants for soldiers in connection to the
massacre.


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