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Mexico Files Drug Charges Against 3 Generals
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of ABC News/Associated Press
Posted: August 7th, 2012
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexico-lodges-...
Mexican prosecutors formally filed drug charges ... against four high-ranking army officers, including three generals and a lieutenant colonel. They are the highest-ranking Mexican army officials arrested in at least 15 years, and allegedly provided protection for the Beltran-Leyva drug cartel. The Attorney General's Office said charges of "organized crime to further drug trafficking" were lodged against retired generals Tomas Angeles Dauahare and Ricardo Escorcia, as well as active service Gen. Roberto Dawe Gonzalez. Retired Lt. Col. Silvio Hernandez Soto faces the same charge. The previous highest-ranking army official arrested was Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, then head of Mexico's anti-drug agency, who was arrested in 1997 and later convicted of aiding deceased drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes. More than 47,000 people have been killed in drug violence ... according to government figures.
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