Mexican marines capture top drug lieutenant

Good for Pres Calderons Image of being tough on the Cartels , possibly really bad for the people of Mexico .

The Cartels really like to retaliate for stuff like this .


(Reuters) - Mexican marines captured a top lieutenant of a leading drug cartel on Sunday, officials said, as authorities intensified their campaign against drug kingpins.

Sergio Villarreal, dubbed "El Grande," was a leading member of the Beltran Leyva cartel and did not resist capture when dozens of marines using armored vehicles cornered him at a safe house in the central Mexican city of Puebla, a marine official told Reuters.

"The capture of Sergio Villarreal ... is another of the federal government's continuing strikes against a highly dangerous criminal organization which is today badly weakened," national security spokesman, Alejandro Poire, said during a news conference on Sunday night.