Mexican Newspaper Publisher Speaks in SA

SAN ANTONIO -- Not far from the podium where he spoke to a packed audience of community and business leaders about the bloody power play among Mexico's drug cartels, bodyguards for Alejandro Junco stood discreetly on the sidelines.
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Because the so-called "businessmen," who led the cartels, are dead or behind bars, Junco, the publisher of the Grupo Reforma newspapers in Monterrey, Mexico City and Guadalajara, told the World Affairs Council the cartels' ranks have shifted and cartel hit men are now in charge.
He began his presentation with a few seconds from a recording of an 80-minute gun battle that ended with a grenade explosion.
"They are very primitive," he said. "They very cruel. And they have no rules."

{posted by Victoria Bell}