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US hands former Tijuana drug cartel boss to Mexico

Former Mexican drug cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Felix was handed over by the United States to Mexico on Monday to face criminal charges, including organised crime, after serving time in a US federal prison in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The Mexican Army and the attorney-general's office, known as the FGR, received Arellano Felix at the Brownsville-Matamoros border crossing and then sent him...

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