Mexico Arrests 2 - Arrests of alleged members of drug cartels, Calderon sbite
NAME: MEX ARRESTS 2 20090810I
TAPE: EF09/0760
IN_TIME: 10:50:34:18
DURATION: 00:02:48:24
SOURCES: Cepropie/AP Television/TV Azteca/Federal Police Handout
DATELINE: Various, 10/9/8 Aug 2009
RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access Mexico
SHOTLIST
++Shots 1 and 2 were first run in Mexico Summit 3 package++
Cepropie
Guadalajara, 10 August 2009
1. Wide of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, US President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper walking onto stage during North American summit
2. Mid of leaders at podium
Cepropie
Guadalajara, 10 August 2009
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Felipe Calderon, Mexican President:
"Basically, what the criminals are looking for is for the authorities to stop, it is for the government to stop functioning. And they do it because they know we are destroying their criminal structures, because they know we are striking at the heart of their business, because we are pushing them back."
AP Television
Mexico City, 10 August 2009
1. Federal police helping detainees from police truck for presentation to media
2. Wide of five detainees being presented by federal police
3. Dimas Diaz Ramos, accused of plotting an assassination attempt on Mexican President Felipe Calderon
4. Cutaway of media
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ramon Pequeno, Head of federal police's anti-drug unit:
"I will also mention that the federal police began this investigation because of a threat to the President that had at its root (President Felipe Calderon's) war on organised crime and a series of detentions and seizures of large quantities of cash carried out last year by the federal police against the organisation of 'El Mayo' Zambada."
6. Tilt up from phones, guns and ammunition seized with detainees to five captured men
TV Azteca - No Access Mexico
Monterrey, 9 August 2009
7. Police entering crime scene
8. Person placing sheet over body of lawyer Silvia Raquenel Villanueva
9. Close up of ammunition shell on ground
10. Low shot of body of Villanueva under blue sheet
11. Wide of soldiers in parking lot of market
12. Entrance to market blocked off with yellow crime scene tape
13. Medical personnel walking into market
14. Two ambulances arriving
15. Medical forensic personnel carrying body of Villanueva out of market
Federal Police Handout
Mexico City, 8 August 2009
16. Wide of Manuel Ivanovich Zambrano Flores alias "El Jimmy" after being detained by federal police
17. Close up of Zambrano Flores
18. Pan of guns, ammunition and other items seized along with Zambrano Flores
AP Television
Mexico City, 10 August 10 2009
29. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ramon Pequeno, Head of federal police's anti-drug unit:
"'El Jimmy' is considered part of the new generation of drug traffickers that operate on that part of the border under the command of Fernando Sanchez Arellano, alias 'El Ingeniero.' Additionally, he is identified as one of the principal lieutenants responsible for drug shipping and money laundering for the organisation."
Federal Police Handout
Mexico City, 8 August 2009
20. Pull out of Zambrano Flores in federal police custody
STORYLINE
The head of the Federal Police's anti-drug unit said police arrested a drug cartel suspect who was believed to be orchestrating a plot to kill Mexican President Felipe Calderon in retaliation for his crackdown on organised crime.
Police chief Ramon Pequeno said on Monday that government intelligence learned that Dimas Diaz, the alleged financial operator of the Pacific Cartel, was behind a threat on Calderon's life.
The investigation into Diaz was opened last year after a series of arrests and seizures from the gang, also known as the Sinaloa cartel, police said.
But they did not say when Calderon was threatened or how they uncovered the assassination plot.
Diaz was arrested with four other alleged drug suspects on Sunday in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, where the gang is based.
The threat was likely a response to a 2007 cocaine bust, one of Mexico's largest, in which 26 tons of drugs coming from Colombia to the cartel were seized in the port of Manzanillo, Pequeno said.
Calderon on Monday brushed off the alleged plot as one of many against him as he wrestled with the country's powerful cartels.
Speaking at a North American summit in Guadalajara on Monday, Calderon said that the criminals wanted the government to "stop functioning" because they knew Mexican authorities were "striking at the heart of their business."
Since taking office in 2006, Calderon has made the drug war a centrepiece of his administration, sending more than 45-thousand troops to hotspots to take on the deeply entrenched gangs.
Cartels have responded with a vengeance, unleashing unprecedented bloodshed.
Drug violence has killed more than 11-thousand people in the last two and half years.
Federal officials say most of the deaths are smugglers killed by rivals fighting over lucrative drug routes into the United States.
On Sunday, a Mexican lawyer known for defending high-profile drug trafficking suspects was shot to death at a street market in the northern city of Monterrey.
A Monterrey police official who was not authorised to be quoted by name said lawyer Silvia Raquenel Villanueva was killed by gunfire.
Nobody else was hurt in the shooting at the normally crowded Pulga Rio market, suggesting an execution-style attack.
The official said there was no immediate information on the possible motive or identity of the killers.
Villanueva defended a number of high-profile drug suspects, including Carlos Resendez Bertolucci, a key foot-soldier for the Gulf cocaine cartel who testified for the prosecution and helped convict cartel kingpin Juan Garcia Abrego of drug-trafficking in the 1990s.
Villanueva had survived previous attempts on her life, including a 1999 attack in Mexico City in which she was wounded by gunfire.
On Saturday, Mexican federal police announced that they captured a top lieutenant of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel.
Suspect Manuel Invanovich Zambrano Flores is among those listed on a US Drug Enforcement Administration poster seeking information on the cartel.
The federal Public Safety Department said that Zambrano Flores was arrested in Tijuana, across from San Diego.
Police seized 10 rifles, 7 pistols, and almost 4-thousand rounds of ammunition during his arrest.
Pequeno said that Zambrano is "one of the principal lieutenants responsible for drug shipping and money laundering" for the Arellano Felix organisation.
Zambrano Flores was detained on Friday and is being held on suspicion of drug trafficking, weapons possession and organised crime charges.