Guatemalan drug lord captured
Published:Thursday | March 31, 2011 | 11:39 AM
United States and Guatemalan agents captured the Central American country's suspected, and most wanted drug lord, Juan Ortiz Lopez.
Soldiers and police in helicopters swooped down on Ortiz's home in the city of Quet-zal-tenango.
Ortiz is accused of smuggling tonnes of cocaine through Guatemala and Mexico into the US.
The operation is the latest sign of the US's growing involvement in the fight against organised crime in Central America.