MEXICO City Mexican police captured a suspected drug enforcer blamed for ordering the murder of the son of an eminent poet, which helped prompt national protests against the Government's drug war strategy, the authorities said Wednesday.
The federal police caught Julio de Jesus Radilla, 34, nicknamed "el negro" (the Black One), in the port of Coatzacoalcos of oil in the Gulf of Mexico where he was hiding, the regional police chief Luis Cardenas said to journalists.
Police said that sent Radilla of the hit men to kill the son of the poet Javier Sicilia and six other young men in March in the tourist town of Cuernavaca near Mexico City.
After the murder, Sicilia slammed the Government's campaign to break the drug cartels and launched a campaign to end the relentless violence, who made nearly 40,000 victims since President Felipe Calderon sent in the army at the end of 2006.
Sicilia became the face of the civil opposition to the war on drugs. He led thousands of people earlier this month a March on Mexico City against the ruthless massacre, one of the most important manifestations of the genus over the years.
Radilla is supposed to be a leader in the Pacific South, managed by the cartel agreement Hector Beltran Leyva, fight against the rivals for control of Cuernavaca and the strategic City resort of the Pacific of Acapulco.
Radilla arrest following arrest last week of Victor Valdez, nicknamed "El Gordo Varilla" (The Big Stick), Cuernavaca. He is accused of being the Commander at the agreement.
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