NAB A drug lord, earn €1.5 million. That’s how much Mexican authorities have offered for information leading to the capture of the country’s most wanted drug suspects.
The government on Monday offered rewards of 30 million pesos, about €1.5 million, each for 24 wanted figures, including Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman and Ismael Zambada, leaders of the main trafficking gang in the northwestern state of Sinaloa.
Another €750,000 was offered for 13 lower-ranking suspects.
It is not the first time that Mexico has offered financial rewards for information leading to the arrest of individual drug figures. But Monday’s offer was unusual because it included the country’s top drug suspects on one list, organised by trafficking gang.
The offer came two days before US secretary of state Hillary Clinton was scheduled to visit to discuss the drug war, which has killed more than 7,000 people across Mexico since January 2008. – (LA Times-Washington Post service)