11. Police captured Santacruz and five other cartel leaders last summer. 12. Santacruz was one of six top cartel leaders who were jailed last summer in a series of police raids in Cali and Bogota. 13. Six of the seven Cali cartel leaders are behind bars -- thanks, as it happens. 14. The files, copied from a computer diskette, also indicate that Carillo, the drug cartel leader, tried in January to negotiate a deal with the government. 15. The jurors found the lawyers not guilty of a list of racketeering acts, including preparing false affidavits from their clients exonerating cartel leaders for whom they worked. 16. The newspaper reported that administration officials were concerned confidential informants and ongoing operations against cartel leaders had been compromised. 17. The progress, American and Mexican officials said, stemmed from renewed cooperation between Mexico and the United States in the hunt for cartel leaders. 18. The Rodriguez Orejuela brothers are among six Cali cartel leaders arrested last summer, one of whom has since escaped jail. 19. The United States had been suspicious of Samper since his election campaign, when the first reports surfaced that campaign money had been solicited from drug cartel leaders. 20. They no longer enjoy custom-made prisons with conference halls and adjoining chalets like the Medellin cartel leader, Pablo Escobar. |