Mexican cartel leader arrested

Mexican police have reportedly said a suspected cartel leader they arrested on Friday has confessed to ordering the murder of 1,500 people in northern Chihuahua state.



According to the CNN, 33-year-old Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, is also suspected of organising the attack on a US consulate worker and her husband in Ciudad Juarez last year.



Juarez is Mexico's most violent city, with more than 3,000 murders in 2010.